soy formula

I read recently there there is strong evidence that there may be a link. However, I believe this was based on one study. I read it on a news site, but can't remember which one.

I believe this is what you are looking for. It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.Here is a link to the abstract.
[url="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/348/11/977?hits=20"]http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/348/11/977?hits=20[/url]
Just found another article .Here is the link.
[url="http://www.nbc4.com/health/1783187/detail.html"]http://www.nbc4.com/health/1783187/detail.html[/url]

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My PA son is now 12 and the only one of my three boys to have had soy formula. He is also the only one who is PA. I breastfed him until he was 9 months old but supplemented daily with a bottle of soy formula. He did have a dairy allergy but if only I could go back and change it!

AKKKKKK!!!!My ds with PA drank tons of soy milk, from about 11 mos. on until he was 3 1/2 & we found he showed an allergy(upon testing) to soy [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/frown.gif[/img] [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/mad.gif[/img] [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/confused.gif[/img] [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/eek.gif[/img]

Don't know what else to say....what you don't know can hurt you (if it's true that is)

Linda

My Non PA son drank Soy formula as an infant and now drinks Soy beverage with his cereal. My children don't drink milk or Soy on it's own, they prefer water to drink or sometimes my son likes applejuice.

My son had Cow's milk for a short time when he was 2 1/2 or 3 years but wasn't able to properly digest it, so we returned to Soy. As an infant he couldn't tolerate milk based formula and we had him tested for milk allergy. We have also had him tested (skin and oral challenge) for Peanut allergy both were negative.

So, no correlation with Soy and peanut allergy in our family.

My two non-PA's were my kiddo's who had soy formula's. When our PA/TNA dd was first given soy formula for the fist time after breatfeeding for 7 months, she vomited the soy formula, so our pediat. said to stop and try a lactose free, dairy base formula instead, that did the trick.
So, no soy, peanut connection here either.

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Alicia, mom to:
Edward-20 years-EA,dog, cat,sulfa drugs
Cody-8 years- EA,dog,cat,mosquito
Shaylyn-4 years-PA/TNA,dog,cat,Amoxicillian,Zithromax,Asthma

Both my PA kids had soy formula when 18 months and older (when I stopped breastfeeding) as they couldn't tolerate cow's milk. One son is mildly allergic to peanut, the other severely.

Quote:Originally posted by gohorns:
[b]Has anyone heard that use of soy formula as an infant may cause a peanut allergy. I have a 5 year old with mild peanut allergy. I also have a 6 month old that has severe eczema and has been soley breastfed thus far. However, the ped. said I could try her on soy formula since eczema is often linked to a dairy allergy or sensitivity. But, I remember hearing on some morning news show that soy formula may be a trigger for developing a peanut allergy. If this is true, I am not sure that I care to introduce a soy formula. Has anyone else heard of this?

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My breastfed ds had eczema also. Eliminating dairy from my diet cleared him up completely. The dairy sensitivity is to cows milk, not to breastmilk. Taking it out of your diet should do the trick and he should be fine with the breastmilk. This is what the allergist at Childrens Memorial in Chicago had me do. He is now one and can tolerate the cows milk in my diet again. The allergist is having me keep him from directly consuming dairy until he is a little older though.

Both my dd's are PA/TNA, the older with other anaphylactic FA. Neither had so much as a taste of formula, either soy or dairy, and were exclusively breastfed. Didn't make a bit of difference. Hope this helps those of you guilting out over having given formula!

Kay

In my opinion, reading the abstract of the article on The New England Journal of Medicine, it seems that peanut allergy seemed to have surfaced because of a reaction to similar epitopes in soy. Therefore it seems to me logical to conclude that if there is no sensitization to soy protein then the connection with peanut allergy does not seem logical. In other words if you were not allergic to the soy formula then the onset of the peanut allergy does not make sense.(No crossreactivity)
I'm looking forward to hear what you all think about it.

You stated your son had eczema.Here is a recent article on nlm gateway from The British Dietetic Association you may find interesting regarding soy and atopy. [url="http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd"]http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd[/url]
then input14528647 click on search , then you will click on display results which will bring you to the abstract

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