I will tell you a formula story. My part is not relevant. It is only here as prologue. My son had sever lactose intolerance. He could not tolerate milk - any milk including soy, including mine. I loved beast feeding him. But we had almost five months of medical chaos during which he ended up in the hospital severely dehydrated. Finally the doctor found the formula "Lamb-base" made from lamb hearts and probably other lamb parts. It was hard to find. This was way before the internet and only one chain of drug stores carried it. We would drive from store to store collecting cans. It was our "miracle" and our son thrived. But they stopped making it. Our doctor found another type "Meat-base" and that worked too. Eventually son was weaned and grew up to be a rather large size man. And the society recognized lactose intolerance. With age his tolerance increased. Happy ending.
Now the real story. Years later a news story caught my eye. A young man with some strange digestive disease very rare lived on "Meat-base" formula. It was among the few things he could eat. The company, whatever it was, decided to stop making "Meat-base". It would leave this young man with nothing to eat. The employees of the company made the formula just for him, on their own time not the company's, until he died several years later.
I wonder what is available for infants like my son these days. I suppose the discontinuation of the formula was an economic decision and only practical. And I think the generosity of the employees still a good story.
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My part is not relevant. It is only here as prologue.
My son had sever lactose intolerance. He could not tolerate milk - any milk including soy, including mine. I loved beast feeding him. But we had almost five months of medical chaos during which he ended up in the hospital severely dehydrated. Finally the doctor found the formula "Lamb-base" made from lamb hearts and probably other lamb parts. It was hard to find. This was way before the internet and only one chain of drug stores carried it. We would drive from store to store collecting cans. It was our "miracle" and our son thrived. But they stopped making it. Our doctor found another type "Meat-base" and that worked too. Eventually son was weaned and grew up to be a rather large size man. And the society recognized lactose intolerance. With age his tolerance increased. Happy ending.
Now the real story. Years later a news story caught my eye.
A young man with some strange digestive disease very rare lived on "Meat-base" formula. It was among the few things he could eat. The company, whatever it was, decided to stop making "Meat-base". It would leave this young man with nothing to eat. The employees of the company made the formula just for him, on their own time not the company's, until he died several years later.
I wonder what is available for infants like my son these days. I suppose the discontinuation of the formula was an economic decision and only practical. And I think the generosity of the employees still a good story.