Raw Milk

[mark]

What are your thoughts on raw milk, cow/goat in regards to Dairy allergies?

[Dr Helen Brough]

Dear Mark,

Goat's milk has 80-90% homology to cow's milk so we don't recommend this in cow's milk allergic individuals as they are likely to react. In children this is also not considered nutritionally adequate as a cow's milk substitute. Raw unpasteurised milk is not recommended in general due to the risk of Listeria and Brucellosis.

Dr Helen Brough
Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Allergy
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London

[mark]

Hi Helen,

i understand the line you may have to take in regards to milk. Luis pasteur who invented pasteurisation, stated that the germ theory was not sound.
(ref vaccination stats www.mercola.com)

I thought that the naturally occouring lactic acid producing bacteria in raw milk protect against pathogens and these are killed by pasturization. pasturization also kills important enzymes and amino acids and vitamins.

Homogised milk i though caused the fat molecules to become 10x smaller (at 4000lbs per sq inch of pressure and at 45oF after 48 hours) meaning they by pass digestion in the stomach, increasing the chances of incomplete protein digestion in the small intestine, leading to proteins possibly being absorbed into the blood stream and leading to a sensitised immune system response or allergy/intollerance.


An additional issue with milk is the growth hormones added by commercial milk producers. This enables the farmers to milk the cows for longer (rBGH) this increases the risk of infection by 80% so then the farmers must also inject the cow with antibiotics, as the cows are stressed they are at high risk of mastitus (puss from the udders) and this is not removed in any filtering prosses. Its crazy stuff when you know what your eating!

surely natural organic raw milk has to be better for us...

[Dr Helen Brough]

Dear Mark,

There is actually data which suggests that drinking unpasteurised cow's milk may be associated with a lower risk of allergy (Perkin et al. Which aspects of the farming lifestyle explain the inverse association with childhood allergy?, JACI 2006). However this was thought to be in the context of farming where the immune system is exposed to more bacterial products which then drive the immune system towards fighting infection rather than fighting normal proteins which the body should accept (allergy). However we still don't recommend drinking unpasteurised milk (I presume this is what you mean by raw milk) as there are still cases of listeria and brucellosis. I recently treated a child who contracted Brucellosis from unpasteurised cheese (albeit the cheese was from Syria) and he was extremely unwell.

Kind regards

[mark]

Hi Helen,

Thank you for the reply i thought you may have been less kind

its always good to read the references. for example when tested on cows they regulalrly had calfs with genetic defects the FDA withheld alot of the information... out of the 10,000 cows tested with rBGH the FDA had 9.500 complaints for mastitus!

IGF-1 this may be an interesting read

Atiq, et el, Alterations in serum levels of insulin-like growth factors and insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins in patients with colorectal cancer int. j. cancer, may 15, 1994 57(4) pp 491 - 497.

[Dr Helen Brough]

Dear Mark,

Many thanks for sending across this reference

Kind regards,