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Hmm Not sure.

So for example, you suddenly are allergic to seafood?
- Obviously, the mom shouldn't' eat seafood anymore
- I don't think the reaction would hurt the breastfed baby since food poisoning doesn't hurt the baby unless mom is REALLY sick (like in the hospital)
- I don't think the baby will necessarily have the allergy to seafood

@pastemoo: Man that really stinks. I think for breastfeeding you should be fine! Hope you figure it out soon.

Allergy research is all over the place.
But I think the trend is going towards exposure to food in breast milk is good and makes the baby less likely to be allergic (even if the mom is allergic).
While some of the immune components causing your rash will be passed along in breastmilk, I haven't heard of that being able to cause a rash in baby. But there's a lot of unknowns, there's lots of breastmilk research left to explore.

@pastemoo: Everything in research is so expensive though. I think right there's a couple reasons the research isnt done, there's no incentive for anyone to make money and funding is so focused on mechanism at a very microscopic level right now that the bigger picture is often neglected. Where I used to work there were several labs in our building basically competing with each other on the same signaling pathway and they were competing wiht many other labs. It's a weird setup