Sensitivity to fructose via breastmilk

Hi there. I am a former member of this group, I still stop by occasionally to check and see how friends are doing. My DD was shown finally not to have HFI during a liver biopsy this past November.

The reason I decided to post is because I am a lactation consultant. Breastmilk contains a minunscal amount of fructose as it's base composition. It would be far less than if one were to eat broccoli once a week. The composition in terms of breastmilk does not change with consumption by the mother. Fructose does not "pass through" the breastmilk.

Proteins do however, so if your dealing with a wheat allergy that is something that needs to be removed from your diet.

Hi, My DD is 5 now, was Dx FI as a baby after she was introduced to food. I breastfed her. At 11 weeks she had a kidney infection and was in the hospital for a few days. She was only breastfed at 11 wks. Her urine show reducing substances at that time, fructose. The doctors didn't think anything of it at that time. DD never had much of an appetite and I needed to feed her because I could feel my breast were full. My boys I could feed on demand, but not DD. Only after she started failing to thrive and months of tests did they figure out fructose was a problem. We cut way back on fructose from her diet and she started putting weight on. She even made it to 3% on the weight charts, 50% on height. Now that she is 5 years old her doctor likes her low BMI, but as a baby is scared all of us. We don't know if DD is DFI or HFI. But I did want to let you know that we saw fructose in DD when only breastfed.

Hey Marylene,

I actually looked into this subject quite a bit before Ethan was born 11 months ago.

It is highly unlikely that breatmilk is the cause of your daughters problems. Ethan also had a very hard time nursing in the beggining, and would spit-up quite a bit-he eventually "latched" but the spit-up continued. We tried everything-even those angled pillows...

We were also using a soy/milk formula at the same time-which I checked was sugar free--once we switched to an all soy formula his reflux and spit-ups pretty much stopped. We don't believe it is a milk problem b/c he eats yogurt and baby mac n' cheese, but it is likely that the milk formula was too hard on his system.

Was your daughter supplemented with formula-or was she on breastmilk only?

I can't speak for all the HFIers, but Sarah was breastfed and was fine. She pushed most food and drinks away too as a child, and her parents and to really hold her down to force medicines-which we all know are loaded with sugar-into her-especially the pink amoxasilan given to children.

So, if your daughter had an aversion to breastmilk, it was likely do to some other subtances in the milk, proteins perhaps, but highly unlikely that it was from the sugar.

if youever come back i would like to ask you a question. my odlest daughter threw up alot as an infant. but it didnt start until she was 6 weeks old. my milk has high lipase in it. i can tell bc if i thaw it out it smells like soap and they wont drink it. my younger child didnt throw up but still has DFI symptoms. the only difference between them is that i drank an extreme amount of chocolate milk with the older and none with the younger. wither during pregnancy or while breastfeeding. the older one has more severe symptoms. is it possible my preg diet made her more sensitive? could high lipase be a problem?