PEDIATRICS Vol. 86 No. 4 October 1990, pp. 650-651
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Aluminum and Infants

Philippe Goyens MD1 and Daniel Brasseur MD, PhD2

1 Unit for Gastroenterology
2 Unit for Nutrition, University Children's Hospital Queen Fabiola, Avenue JJ. Crocq 15, B-1020 Brussels, Belgium

To the Editor.—

Litov and co-workers1 address an important question regarding aluminum loading in infants. Aluminum is a toxic element. Its retention results in an increase in the body burden of aluminum. This has been shown to be a health hazard in patients with compromised kidney function and in those receiving total parenteral nutrition.

The aluminum content of soy-based infant formulas is known to be high.2 The authors report their finding of normal plasma aluminum levels in infants fed a soybased formula during the first 3 months of life, and they suggest that the ingestion of "amounts of aluminum severalfold greater than that found in human milk" is of no clinical relevance.