| Vegan Health News | September 22 2007 |
Is Sudden Infant Death Really Heiner Syndrome?
Heiner syndrome is a food hypersensitivity lung disease that affects infants, and is usually caused by cow's milk protein. This disease is often misdiagnosed in healthy children, and not diagnosed at all during the tragic hours after an infant's death.
This terribly misunderstood disease strikes children between the ages of 6 months and two years, often during the hours after consuming their last bottle of cow's milk or formula. The symptoms of Heiner's Disease are remarkably similar to the vast variety of symptoms attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Sadly, parents often miss the onset of Heiner's which includes ear aches and ear infections, tummy aches, and typical cold symptoms including a runny nose. The child often develops anemia as a result of intestinal bleeding caused by cow's milk hypersensitivity. One sign is dark stools caused by dead red blood cells.
If any of the above symptoms are observed, the cure is a simple one: total immediate elimination of all cow's milk and dairy products.
Dr. Frank Oski (once chief of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Medical School) suggested that fifty percent of children suffer from one or more of these symptoms, and regretted the fact that parents rarely if ever make the connection to milk consumption.
Heiner's Syndrome might very well be the least understood and most misdiagnosed disease in the medical literature. For many infants, the implications can be heartbreaking and catastrophic.
Reference: Robert Cohen Notmilk.com.
Editor's Note: If all mothers would breastfeed their babies, much childhood illness and suffering, associated with drinking cow's milk and allergic reactions to cow's milk, could be avoided. Cow's milk is the ideal food for calves. Human mother's milk is ideal for human babies.
