Transmission of Protein Hypersensitiveness from Mother to Offspring

[摘要] There are certain clinical indications which have suggested the possibility that the breast milk of mothers may transmit foreign food proteins and thus produce nutritional and allergic disturbances in the nursling. This is shown in the case reports of Talbot (1), O'Keefe (2), and Ratner (3). As a result of O'Keefe's work which first demonstrated positive allergic skin reactions in nursing infants to foods of which they had never partaken, Shannon (4), in 1921, attempted to demonstrate experimentally the actual presence of foreign food proteins in the milk of certain nursing mothers. He believes that he has proved the presence of egg protein in breast milk and concludes that the passage of this egg protein was responsible for the eczema and nutritional disturbances of these infants. The following year, in a clinical paper (5), he states that he has also shown the passage of veal protein and believes that any foreign protein may be demonstrated in the breast milk.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）