Influenced to Death Episode #16: Will an elimination diet help my baby's eczema?
In this episode, Hannah and Victoria have the extreme pleasure of speaking with Dawn Whitten, a clinician, researcher, educator, and clinical mentor in naturopathic medicine specific to perinatal and early life health for over twenty years. (This woman knows her stuff, y’all.)
Today’s topic? Maternal exclusion, aka elimination diets, as a way to address eczema or other symptoms in the baby.
Does it work? Is it safe? What does the evidence say? What is Dawn’s clinical experience?
See all of Dawn’s publications here. 🤯
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Resources & research notes for this episode:
The Australian Breastfeeding Association is a wonderful resource—it's a volunteer-run non-profit organization that uses a peer-support model. They have put together many resources for parents and are a place to go for reliable information
And, of course, La Leche League.
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is more of a professional organization, but they do have a find a practitioner function that can help parents find a practitioner fluent in breastfeeding medicine. They also have a few great handouts.
And they have some great parent handouts.
On maternal peanut allergen consumption while breastfeeding and infant allergy:
On breastfeeding and the effect of policies and marketing of breastmilk substitutes:
* Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?
* Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy
* Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect
(this is considered a seminal paper)
On donor milk:
* Australian Breastfeeding Association Position Statement on Donor Milk
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