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This course is for those working with families with babies who are suffering from colic or reflux, and who are showing signs of lactose intolerance, cows’ milk protein allergy and other food allergies and intolerances.

We’ll be addressing how to prevent, detect, understand and manage what’s going on for these infants, how it might be prevented in the future and what the underlying causes are, as well as how to reduce symptoms and get baby back to being happy. New spheres of scientific understanding including the microbiome, early neurological development and epigenetics will be discussed alongside existing understanding of allergy and immune disorder, to help students understand the background of the symptoms.

Students of this course will be looking at what the main issues are, and will find out how best to support the families, whilst discussing the most up to date evidence base for management of symptoms in all milk fed babies, covering medications, other prescription products, dietary changes and all kinds of other management strategies.

Two key experts in the field share wisdom gathered over decades, looking at causes in individual families as well as appropriate protocols for management which can be used in these individual families. The experiences of families whose babies have been on this journey are also represented, via case studies and stories used as educational opportunities.

Course overview

Reflux and cows milk allergy is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood. We want to give you the key information you need to know to better support families you are working with.

This course is for those working with families with babies who are suffering from colic or reflux, and who are showing signs of lactose intolerance, cows’ milk protein allergy and other food allergies and intolerances.

We will teach you….

  • How to prevent, detect and manage what’s going on for infants.
  • During the course you will learn how to prevent, detect, understand and manage what’s going on for these distressed infants.
  • You will also explore how it might be prevented in the future and what the underlying causes are and reduce.
    symptoms and get baby back to being happy.
  • What the latest evidence is, and the implications for prevention and management of these troubling symptoms.
  • We’ll be sharing with you the newest spheres of scientific understanding including the microbiome, early neurological development and epigenetics.
  • We will also be exploring existing understanding of allergy and immune disorder, to help you understand the background of the symptoms.
  • Key strategies regarding on how to support families.

You will learn practical steps to support families with evidence based information and case histories shared by specialists with decades of experience supporting families with infantile crying, allergy and immune disorder.

We will be discussing the most up to date evidence base for management of symptoms in all milk fed babies, covering medications, other prescription products, dietary changes and all kinds of other management strategies.

E-learning course requirements

In order to complete the online element of the Infant Allergies, Colic & Reflux Training candidates are required to have the following in place:

  • Internet access and a working email address.
  • Up to date internet browser such as: Google Chrome/ Internet Explorer/Safari/FireFox.
  • Ability to hear audio/video via your computer.
  • Use of a computer to study the course – tablets and smartphones are not advisable for studying.

MAUREEN MINCHIN

MEDICAL HISTORIAN
Maureen Minchin is a world renowned medical historian whose 1970s experience of motherhood resulted in her second book, Food for Thought: a parent’s guide to food intolerance, recognized as ground breaking in its treatment of infant allergy. Her third book, Breastfeeding Matters, was declared a “milestone in the history of breastfeeding” by Prof JD Baum. For 35 years she has worked extensively in the area of infant nutrition, including for WHO, and UNICEF, and teaching health professionals in Australia and overseas. She was influential in the creation of IBLCE and BFHI, and a founding (and later Board) member of both ILCA and ALCA. Maureen has continued to work free of charge with families with both infant feeding and allergy problems. Her latest book, Milk Matters: Infant Feeding and Immune Disorder was published in 2015.

SHEL BANKS

IBCLC & COLIC, REFLUX & INFANT ALLERGIES EXPERT
Shel is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with extensive experience within the NHS in research, training and project management. Her own successful private practice assists mothers and babies with feeding issues, and she also works in the tertiary sector with various national organisations. She is the author of “Why Formula Feeding Matters”, and is currently working on the Cochrane systematic reviews on Infantile Colic. Shel is heavily involved in the voluntary sector being the Vice-Chair for the UK Association of Milk Banking, and Chair of Communications Team for the Lactation Consultants of Great Britain.