Guest guest Posted May 2, 2001 Report Share Posted May 2, 2001 Folks, After thinking about the diet and in particular what this means to a baby, it occurs to me that gluten and casein acting as opiates for babies might in fact explain some cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Imagine that a child is born with this deficit. For whatever reason, when they ingest glutenous or caseinous foods they end up with opiates entering their brain. Something that doesn't normally happen from eating these foods so pediatricians would never go looking for it. Now in a child who is breast fed from birth, mother's milk comes in gradually over the first few days after birth. And opiate tolerance develops very quickly. So in my son's case for example he showed symptoms of a cold, unable to breath through his nose, and the pediatrician put him in the hospital in an oxygen tent for two days when he was 1 1/2 weeks old. Tolerance would develop as ingestion increased, perhaps with nothing more than a long sleep at times. *** Now what about an infant that is not nursed, that is given a GF/CF diet of soy based formula? Suddenly at six months they are started on oatmeal, or cow's milk. Isn't it possible that for such a child, they go from an inadvertently GF/CF diet of soy milk to drinking four or six ounces of cow's milk their first day off the diet? Get their first dose of opiates because they have this digestive or metabolic failure which allows cow's milk to enter their brain as opiates, go to sleep and die of an opiate overdose? Couldn't it be the case for that reason that some babies end up dead in their cribs at an early age? Marty Landman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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