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AUTISM FIRST STEPS
AUTISM DAILY NEWSLETTER
Saturday January 5, 2002
INDEX:
* Emily Greco, who
died from bacterial meningitis at the age of 11, left
behind a legacy of helping other children
* Model State
Bioterror Law Stirs Controversy
* Immune Response to Hydrolyzed Cow's Milk Formulations Clarified
* Sensitization to
Common Allergens and Its Association With Allergic
Disorders at Age 4 Years (LINK ONLY)
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Emily Greco, who died
from bacterial meningitis at the age of 11, left behind a legacy of helping
other children
Emily Greco, who died from bacterial
meningitis at the age of 11, left behind a legacy of helping other children
DAVID P. GILKEY/Detroit Free Press
Emily
Greco enjoyed animals like her cat, Barbie, and figure skating, as her mother,
Edna, can see amid a mirrored display of medals and ribbons.
Emily's gift
Emily Greco, who died from bacterial
meningitis at the age of 11, left behind a legacy of helping other children
March 13, 2001
"You were the wind that lifted
me to greatnessYou sang with the voice of the brightest starAnd you painted
your life with all the colors of a majestic sky.You gave me "LIFE"
beautiful one.I will remember you. Will you remember me?"-- Excerpt
from the poem "My Hero," by Briana Gibson, age 12
Emily Greco had the gift of a loving
heart.Her mother is thinking about that now as she sits in the solitude of her
house, a candle burning on a nearby hallway table in memory of her daughter
.
Emily
Greco
It is hard for Edna Greco
to talk about her daughter's death, but not any harder than living silently
with the pain.Always, she has something of Emily's with her. The silver ring
she gave her daughter last summer -- a gift after Emily landed her first single
axel -- dangles from a chain around her neck. In her left hand, she holds a key
chain with her daughter's nickname, Emmie, spelled out in beads. She fingers it
like a rosary."It's a lifelong death sentence for me," Edna Greco
says, her voice trembling. "I've realized the opposite of love is pain.
People say it gets better. It doesn't. You just learn to live with it. My
11-year-old -- something has to come from this. She didn't live for
nothing."Emily Greco, who was a sixth-grader at Jefferson Middle School in
St. Clair Shores, died Oct. 5 of bacterial meningitis. She was the second
Detroit area youth to die of the disease last fall, shortly after the school
year began.Emily was a figure skater whose spins and spirals came more
naturally than her jumps. But what Emily couldn't accomplish on the ice, she
more than made up for with her compassion, a gift her mother hopes will be her
child's legacy.At 10, Emily started her own foundation -- Kids Helping Other
Kids -- to benefit children with special needs. Today, her family and friends
are carrying on with the cause at the same time they are carrying on with life.
One has been easier than the other."They say we're all here to learn
lessons," Edna Greco says. "I truly believe that Emily was here to
teach us all one. When perfect strangers call me and say, 'You don't know me,
but she changed my life' -- it doesn't take my pain away, but it is something.""When
you talked with your precious words,you touched me in my heart.I want you to be
by my side for the rest of my lifeguiding me to make the right
choices.HERO."They sat side-by-side at Memorial Park, mother and
daughter, eating lunch at the end-of-the-summer picnic for the special-needs
program in St. Clair Shores.It was August 1999. Emily had just turned
10."She finished lunch, and I was sitting across from a couple, talking,
and then they left," Edna Greco recalled. "I looked over at Emily.
She had tears welling up, and a tear rolled down her face. I said, 'What's
wrong with you?' She said, 'Look at that, Mom.' "Edna looked to her right.
Two special-needs staff members were lifting a boy from his wheelchair onto a
swing."That is so sad," Emily said.Edna told her daughter: "We
take for granted -- you can run over there right now and jump on that swing and
swing as high as you want anytime. And that little boy can't. That's where it
takes the money. These people have to be specially trained to help."Emily,
still in tears, looked at her mother."I'm going to raise a thousand
dollars next year!" she said.Eight months later -- it was now April 2000
-- and the first warm spring weekend had arrived. Friends called Emily to play.
She said maybe later; she was busy with something.Armed with a portfolio she
made herself, which included a permission letter from the city parks and
recreation director, pictures of special-needs children and a list of members
from the St. Clair Shores Figure Skating Club -- where her mother is a board
member and past president -- Emily laced her tennis shoes and went to
work.First, she went door-to-door, up and down her Ardmore Parkway block. Then,
with her parents' permission, she called club members and local businesses,
trying to solicit donations. She even took her folder and pledge sheet to a
local hockey game and asked strangers in the stands if they could help.She
raised $1,000 the first weekend. By the end of the month, with help from her
friends, Briana Gibson and Sara Zanger, the pledge total skyrocketed.When Greg
Esler, the parks and recreation director, accepted the check from Emily during
a fund-raising dinner, he was stunned.
THE
FOUNDATION
To send
donations to the Emily Greco Foundation Kids Helping Other Kids, write to St.
Clair Shores Parks & Recreation, 20000 Stephens Drive, St. Clair Shores,
Mich. 48080. Or call 810-445-5350 for more information. Proceeds will benefit
the St. Clair Shores special-needs program.
"When I first looked at it, I thought it was for $200," he said.
"But when I saw the other zero at the end, I was shocked."Emily had
raised $2,134 in contributions for special-needs children.When Sandy Wolny, the
deputy parks and rec director, told Emily that St. Clair Shores mayor Curtis
Dumas planned to recognize her with a proclamation, Emily begged her to talk
him out of it."She was very upset," Edna Greco remembered. "She
felt very uncomfortable taking recognition for something she wanted to
do."Finally, Emily relented.After her picture was published in the local
paper, some of Emily's classmates at Ardmore Elementary, where she was a
fifth-grader, asked if they could help raise money, too. Emily was reticent at
first.Her mother knew why."Are you afraid, because you started it?"
she asked."Well, it's special to me," Emily said."You
could make this into something big," her mother replied.And on that day,
Emily's foundation -- Kids Helping Other Kids -- was born.The first thing she
did was call her classmates and neighborhood friends who wanted to help. She formed
a committee and began the first meeting with a rainbow of ideas for
fund-raising activities.How about swimming and skating parties? They could sell
sweatshirts. They could even do a can-and-bottle drive in January --
"After the Super Bowl!" Emily said.But first, she wanted her team to
have matching brightly colored T-shirts so they would stand out in the
community. She picked yellow, her favorite color.One more thing. What would a
kids group be without a theme song?Like everything else, that came quickly,
too. Riding alongside her mother in the car one day, she heard a song by
country singer Mark Wills playing on the radio. It was called "Don't Laugh
at Me.""That's it!" Emily said.Edna drove to the record store
and bought the compact disc.Back in her living room now. Edna is staring at the
bookshelf. Staring back at her is the framed photograph of a smiling child
holding her mayor's proclamation. It was dated May 15, 2000.Edna closes her
eyes for a moment and cries. She is asked what the song is about."It goes
something like, 'Don't laugh at me. Don't call me names. Don't take your
pleasure from my pain. In God's eyes we're all the same. One day we'll all have
perfect wings.' ""You inspired my life.... Hot cocoa with small
white marshmallowsgives me a picture of an angel (you), ice skating
peacefullyand calmly on a pure white cloud. HERO."Emily Greco had lots
of best friends. But among kids her age, Briana Gibson was her "bestest
friend."A seventh-grader at Jefferson Middle School, Briana, 12, was
eight months older and a grade ahead of Emily. They met about six years ago,
when Briana saw Emily jumping rope in her driveway down the street.Their
friendship developed so fast they seemed as close as twins -- right down to the
way they would put their heads together whenever their picture was taken.Of
course, both claimed they knew everything about each other. Briana knew
Emily's favorite food was spaghetti. And her favorite animals? Easy. Dolphins,
cats and baby seals."We were going to be college roommates," Briana
said. "We'd say, 'You'll be my bridesmaid, and I'll be yours. You can be
my kid's godmother, and I'll be yours.' She wanted to be a veterinarian or a
skater. I would sometimes be so jealous of her because she knew what she wanted
to do."Emily was the nicest person I ever knew. Whenever there was a new
kid, she would be the first one to go up and say, 'Let's play.' She didn't like
to see people sad or lonely."Gary Zeh, school counselor at Ardmore
Elementary, recognized that compassion in Emily as well.He got to know her well
during the fourth grade, when Emily bounded into his office one day to teach
him how to play a card game called "Speed.""Emily had a caring
quality about her that enabled her to be a part of most of the social groups
here," Zeh said. "She was a good academic student, but she had a
quality to be able to go up and down the social ladder -- from the most popular
to the least popular. She was a bridge between different groups of kids and
people. That was kind of the way I saw her. She was a people person, but she
didn't push herself on you, and that was a leadership quality."Zeh and
others think Emily's gift for cultivating friendships was born out of the
trusting relationship she shared with her parents. Especially Edna, the
community programs director at the Lakeshore YMCA."Edna does an awful lot
-- for the skating club and for people in general -- and Emily looked up to her
mother for that," said Lisa Zick-Martin, who was Emily's figure skating
coach for almost three years. "You could tell that they loved each other
so much, just by the way they looked at each other."As the oldest of
Dennis and Edna Greco's three children, Emily watched over her younger siblings
-- Nikolas, 6, and Arianna, 4 -- like a fairy godmother.Born June 12, 1989, at
6:58 p.m., Emelia Kathleen Greco weighed a seemingly healthy 9 pounds at birth,
but was whisked away before Edna could hold her for the first time because the
baby had fluid in her lungs. Emily also had jaundice.Figure skating became a
big part of Emily's life at age 5, when her parents enrolled her in group
lessons at the St. Clair Shores Figure Skating Club. Emily loved it.She was
tall for her age, and Edna remembers going to a skating competition and hearing
some mothers whisper behind her, "Isn't she a little old to be at
this level?""I would turn around and say, 'She's only 8!' " said
Edna Greco, who's 5-feet-10.Emily's favorite skaters were Kristi Yamaguchi,
Brian Boitano and Michelle Kwan. Locally, she looked up to Andrea Aggeler of
Harrison Township, who finished eighth at the 1999 U.S. senior nationals.But
one of Emily's proudest moments came when she saw 1998 Olympic gold medalist
Tara Lipinski in Lansing. This was the summer after Lipinski won the title, and
Emily had just won two medals in a club competition.Emily went up to Lipinski
and asked, "I won a gold and a silver today, and I was wondering if I
could get your picture?"Lipinski happily obliged, Edna Greco remembered.Encounters
such as that made Emily -- who was at the pre-juvenile level -- more excited
about skating. Several days a week during the last couple of years, mother and
daughter would wake up at 5 a.m. -- even during the school year -- for Emily's
6 a.m. lessons at the club."Skating was a little bit harder for Emily, but
she never gave up," Zick-Martin said. "She always had the
determination to keep trying. She had beautiful spirals -- she had those nice,
long legs. She was an awesome spinner, could do Bauers" -- a skating move
-- "and was just learning to do a spread eagle."Emily was also
preparing to work on choreography for a new competition routine -- to
"Desert Rose," by Sting -- the first week of October.But at 6 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 3, when Zick-Martin took the ice to teach her students, she
scanned the group and noticed right away that a certain smiling someone wasn't
there.Where was Emily?"How lonely I am right now with you gone.... My
heart is empty.... Perhaps you can help me now, my friend.The brightest candle
was lit and has now gone out.Although you have left my world for a betterplace,
you will live in my heart, and I in yours. HERO."She had skated that
Friday before, but as Edna Greco was driving her daughter to school after
practice that morning, Emily turned to her."I don't feel good, Mom,"
she said. "My ears are hurting."
ANSWERS
ABOUT MENINGITIS
MENINGITISAn infection of the fluid surrounding the
brain and spinal cord. Sometimes called "spinal meningitis." There
are two varieties.Viral meningitis: Less severe; usually passes without
treatment.Bacterial meningitis: Can be severe and cause brain damage,
hearing loss and learning disabilities; treated with antibiotics. The most
common bacteria are streptococcus and Neisseria.VACCINATIONThere is no
single vaccine for bacterial meningitis; instead, there are two for adults (the
pneumonia vaccine and polysaccaride meningococcal) and one for children (HIB
vaccine). There is no vaccine for viral meningitis.SPREADBy nose and
throat secretions (coughing, kissing). Not as contagious as flu or common cold;
not spread by casual contact or simply by breathing air near an infected
person.SYMPTOMSHigh fever, headache and stiff neck; can develop in
several hours or over as long as two days. Other possible symptoms: nausea,
vomiting, discomfort looking into bright light, confusion, sleepiness. Prompt
diagnosis and treatment are important.MORE INFORMATIONAdditional
information about bacterial meningitis is available online. At
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/, select "disease information" and
"meningococcal."
Edna drove straight home and took Emily's temperature."She didn't have a
fever," Edna said. "She was sitting up and eating. But with the
history of ear tubes and strep throat, I kept her home because I wanted to
monitor her."By Saturday morning, Emily said she felt good enough to go to
the YMCA Double Dare with her mother. The two laughed like crazy at the family
function."We did wacky, messy stuff -- she poured Spaghettios all over me
and I had to wear these giant pants and she was throwing eggs in them,"
Edna said. "They busted all over me, and she just thought that was so funny."That
afternoon, Emily left to spend the night at her grandparents' home in Allen
Park, but she wanted to come home early Sunday to attend her first youth group
meeting at First United Methodist Church.The next day -- this was now Monday
morning -- Emily had her skating lesson and went to school. She said she felt
better. But after school, at 3 p.m. -- the time Edna expected her daughter to
call her office and check in -- Edna knew right away that something was
wrong.When she picked up the phone, she heard Emily crying."Mommy, my head
hurts so bad," Emily said."When did your head start
hurting?""About an hour ago, and it hurts.""I'm on my
way," her mother said.The first thing Edna did was take Emily's
temperature. Again, no fever. She gave her some Tylenol and about an hour
later, Emily seemed better. Edna thought it was the flu, but did some other
checking."We knew there had been a case of spinal meningitis in the area,
and I had the flier," Edna said. "I picked up the flier Monday night
and reread it."That night, Emily began vomiting."I asked her, 'Is
your neck hurting?' She said, 'No.' 'Is it hard to move?' She said,
'No.'"At 5 in the morning, I went and pulled out my medical books and sat
at the kitchen table and looked up everything from brain tumor to spinal
meningitis. The main symptom? Stiff neck. It told you about a test to do. So I
waited for about an hour, went in a little after 6, woke her up and said,
'Honey, I know you're tired, but I need you to do something for me.'
"Emily sat up in her bed, and Edna made her touch her chin to her chest.
Then Emily moved her neck up and down, back and forth.It didn't hurt, Emily
said.With Niko and Arianna off at school Tuesday, Edna decided to stay home
with Emily. Later that morning, she seemed to be getting better. Her ears
didn't hurt anymore -- in fact, they stopped aching a few days before. Mother
and daughter played gin rummy and watched TV. But an hour after Emily ate some
chicken soup, she was in the bathroom, vomiting.That night, they both fell
asleep on the couch. At 11:30 p.m., Emily woke up crying. The headache was
back.Edna went to the medicine cabinet, got her daughter some Tylenol and
collapsed on the couch, exhausted."She goes, 'Mommy, I need some water.' I
said, 'Emily, you need to get your rest. Get your water on the way to
bed.'"My last words were, 'Get your butt in bed.' I regret that."An
hour later, around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Edna went to her bedroom. About three
hours later, she heard a crash. At first, she thought it was Emily's cat,
Barbie, who frequently knocks over things at night.But something told her to
get up. Something told her to check in Emily's room."If I wouldn't have
had, I would have found her the next morning," Edna said, sobbing.
"When I went in there, she had tried to get out of bed or something, and
she had fallen and hit the chair. She cracked her (front) tooth right down the
middle. She was seizing, convulsing."Edna was screaming: "Dennis!
Dennis! Call 911!"Edna, fearing Emily could choke, stuck her finger down
her daughter's throat to make sure her airway was clear. Then she grabbed her
cell phone and called Briana Gibson's mother, Valerie, the administrative director
of acute care services at St. John Hospital in Detroit."The phone rang,
and all I heard was screaming -- I'll never forget that," Valerie Gibson
said. "She kept screaming my name, screaming my name. I couldn't
understand her, and I said, 'Who is this?' Then I heard Dennis in the
background, and Edna said, 'She's having a seizure! She's having a seizure! Get
over here right away!' "Gibson, in her nightgown, sped down the street in
her car, thinking all along that it was Arianna who was sick."I didn't
even know Emily had missed school," Gibson said. "And when I walked
in and saw Emily on the floor, I was flabbergasted. She was pretty bad. She was
having what we call grand mal seizures, probably the most severe form of a
seizure that you could have -- jerking motions, she wasn't responding, and her
eyes were rolled back."Moments later, paramedics arrived and took Emily to
St. John.Emily's condition was grave.A spinal tap confirmed that she had
bacterial meningitis, which causes swelling around the brain and spinal cord."In
the ER, Edna looked at me and said, 'Is my baby going to die?' " Valerie
Gibson said. "I looked at her and Dennis both and said, 'I can't tell you
that she isn't.' "It wasn't long before tests confirmed what nobody wanted
to believe. When she heard the news, Edna ran out of the hospital and into the
pouring rain. She remembers calling Patrick O'Neil, the skating director at the
St. Clair Shores club, and crying: "Patrick, they're telling me that Emily
is brain dead, and she's going to die!"The next morning, on Thursday, Oct.
5, Edna watched as her daughter was wheeled down the hall for another special
test. The family was told that there was no brain activity, and that she needed
to be taken off the machines.At Jefferson Middle School, grief counselors were
assembled, ready to meet with the students. Kathie Prainito, Emily's
sixth-grade homeroom teacher, wanted to tell Emily's classmates of her death
before the counselors came in."We cried a lot," Prainito said.
"They were devastated."At the hospital, after Emily was taken off a
ventilator and the machines were unhooked, Dennis Greco picked up his daughter
and placed her in Edna's arms. They were in a rocking chair, next to the
bed."I wanted to hold her and rock her because I didn't get to hold her when
she was born," Edna said, sobbing. "I sang 'Sunshine' to her. They
put a blanket over her, and I just held her. People came in one by one to say
good-bye.""You will never be forgotten, Emily.... You have
inspired my life and always will.You are one true HERO."Five months
later, Emily's spirit is still very much alive.Her best friend, Briana, was
asked by Edna Greco to take over the kids foundation for Emily. Since December,
after three fund-raisers, the group has raised more than $2,300."I think
about her every day," Briana said. "I saw a special-needs person at
my volleyball game, and that made me think of her. I have picture frames of
Emily all over my room and at night, out of the blue, I'll just think of her
and start crying."At Jefferson Middle School, a memorial service will be
held this spring at the Bradford pear tree planted in Emily's honor near the
sixth-grade wing. At the parks and rec office, Greg Esler, a longtime family
friend of the Grecos', said when he arrived at work last week he thought, for a
split-second, that he had seen Emily standing in the lobby.Emily was a girl
shared by everyone, he said."In her 11 years on Earth, she did more in her
life than a lot of people in their late age," Esler said. "What the
Grecos are doing in her memory -- the foundation and everything -- is
fabulous."Edna said she will never stop; her goal is to raise enough money
to build the special-needs program its own community center.The cards, letters
and gifts -- they keep coming, too. A couple of months ago, the Grecos received
a copy of an invitation from a couple of boys who celebrated their birthdays
together. In lieu of presents, the youngsters wanted donations made to Emily's
foundation. They sent a check for $180."This has affected a lot of people,"
Edna said. "I love this community because of what I saw in this community
early on. I will never leave. This community has been so good to me. I will
stay here for the rest of my life to give back."And so a light still burns
-- physically and spiritually. Drive past the Greco home, and you can see a
single light bulb shining on the windowsill of Emily's bedroom. The bulb has
burnt out only once since her death. It was on Ash Wednesday.In the hallway of
the home, another light flickers. It's a candle that sits on the rocky ledge of
a small fountain. It stays lit, too, when the family is home."No matter
how much darkness we have in our lives," Edna said, "that candle will
never go out."
Contact JO-ANN BARNAS at 313-222-2037
or barnas@freepress.com.
http://www.freep.com/sports/othersports/skate13_20010313.htm
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Model State Bioterror Law Stirs Controversy
Dave
Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Jan. 3, 2002
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) has come
under fire
for giving governors and state health officials broad power to involuntarily
quarantine and vaccinate citizens, as well as authority "to control,
restrict and regulate ... food, fuel, clothing and other commodities,
alcoholic beverages, firearms, explosives, and combustibles ..."
Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University and
professor
of public health at Johns Hopkins University, wrote the draft bill, a
blueprint for future state legislation, with grant money from the National
Institutes of Health.
Although no state has yet enacted legislation based on the model,
the
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a bipartisan group of state
legislators, has warned the plan would intrude on Americans' civil
liberties.
Meanwhile, Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), a
Minnesota-based
health lobby, is concerned that the proposal would provide intrusive
authority for purposes far beyond bioterrorism.
But Gostin recently defended his draft bill. "The idea that we
need it is
very clear, "he maintained, adding that when the next bioterror shoe
drops,
the states would be unprepared to counter the threat "without being able
to
plan, to conduct surveillance, to treat, to test, to vaccinate people, or if
necessary, even to confiscate pharmaceuticals or vaccines."
Government Does Not Have Enough Power?
"Some states have far too few powers," Gostin explained.
"Anybody who
thinks we can fight a 21st century battle against bioterrorism with early
20th century legislation really just doesn’t understand the sorry state of
public health law in America."
But critics of the draft law such as CCHC and ALEC find fault with
what
they describe as its overbroad language. Jennifer King, a legislative expert
with ALEC, pointed to the following language as troublesome:
*The term "property" is not limited to just land and buildings on
that land,
but it also includes food, alcohol and even firearms, she said.
*A "public health emergency" can be declared not only for
bioterrorism
attacks, but also for epidemics, pandemic disease or natural disasters.
*The terms "epidemic disease," "pandemic disease" and
"natural disaster"
are not defined, leaving public health officials ample room for their own
interpretation.
*There are no limits on the number or types of tests that can be performed
on individuals, or on the bodily specimens that can be collected. DNA and
genetic testing are not excluded.
'Due Process'
Gostin counters by insisting: "The prime responsibility of
government
should include a very careful attention to the health, safety and security
of the population . "[I] have bent over backwards in writing the law to
make
sure that there was very careful attention to due process and checks and
balances."
But Gostin’s assertions have not mollified the critics, such as CCHC, which
insists that due process could be trampled in the following examples:
*Although due process is allowed, the act permits state officials to
identify and train personnel to serve as "emergency judges" to deal
with
citizen appeals of forced quarantine and isolation. Such training may be
biased, said a spokesman for CCHC.
*Citizens are required to submit to medical examinations, vaccinations and
quarantine against their will if a public health emergency is declared.
*Public health officials are given authority to "collect specimens and
perform tests on any person" even if they are healthy with no history of
exposure to disease.
*Health care professionals who refuse to provide forced medical examinations
or vaccinations can be charged with a misdemeanor.
*Citizens who refuse to comply can be detained and charged with a
misdemeanor.
*Police officers will be placed under the authority of health department
officials.
But Gostin is quick to say: "This is not anything to do with
military
tribunals or anything like that - there’s a lot of due process. So, for
those who say that there’s not enough civil liberties in it, I think the
only thing I could say is that for most of the provisions, the civil
liberties protections are far greater than that which exists under current
law."
Some states, including Minnesota, are already considering enactment
in
2002. The Illinois state legislature recently rejected a proposed bill
modeled after Gostin’s MEHPA.
Gostin forecasted that his model legislation would be considered in
"virtually every state" when the new state legislative sessions
begins this
month.
He said his model was designed to be adapted by the states as
needed, to
update their statutes. The proposal is not intended to be one-size-fits-all,
he added.
http://www.newsmax.com
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Immune Response to Hydrolyzed Cow's Milk
Formulations Clarified
NEW YORK
(Reuters Health) Dec 28 - Infants at risk for atopy who receive partially
hydrolyzed milk formula (pHF) demonstrate suppressed cellular responses to
cow's milk but increased specific IgG production, according to a report
published in the December issue of Allergy. Feeding with hydrolyzed milk
formulas is recommended to infants at risk for atopy when breast-feeding is not
possible. However, the specific cellular and humoral immune responses that
occur after feeding with these formulas are unclear. Dr. Zsolt Szépfalusi, from
University of Vienna in Austria, and colleagues assessed the immune responses
of 72 infants, at risk for atopy, who were randomized to receive pHF,
extensively hydrolyzed formula (eHF), or maternal breast milk. Cellular and
humoral responses were evaluated at 6 and 12 months of age. Compared with
infants who were exclusively breast-fed, pHF-fed infants demonstrated decreased
mononuclear cell proliferation to cow's milk caseins. At 12 months, higher
levels of IgG to the beta subunit of casein were noted in pHF-fed infants
compared with eHF-fed infants. Cow's milk-specific IgE responses at 6 months
were seen in three infants in the breast-feeding group, two in the eHF group,
and none in the pHF group. The prevalence and severity of atopic dermatitis
during the first 12 months did not differ between the treatment groups, the
investigators note. "Even when infants can become sensitized to food
allergens by exclusive breast-feeding via mother's milk, there is no
justification to change thoughtlessly to a hypoallergenic formula," the
authors state. The present findings do not support a change in the atopy
prevention measures that are currently recommended, they add. Allergy 2001;56:1144-1156.
http://allergy.medscape.com/reuters/prof/2001/12/12.31/20011228clin006.html
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Sensitization
to Common Allergens and Its Association With Allergic Disorders at Age 4 Years:
http://allergy.medscape.com/Medscape/features/JournalScan/Allergy/2002/js-aci0104.html
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