Denise said,

<< Perhaps they are referring to Dr. Gartner's work (several years back)
 referring to jaundice in breastfed babies as a normal state, with
 bilirubin having anti-oxidant effects.  I believe that it was found in
 mice that breast milk enhanced reabsorption of bilirubin, and his
 contention was that if 2/3 of breastfed infants have elevated bili's,
 then it must be a normal physiologic function instead of a pathologic
 function.  Sorry to post without the reference. >>

There was a Reuters article that just came out that said exactly (almost) the
same thing -- about bilirubin being an antioxidant -- however, the problem w/
Reuters is that you don't get the citation.  This was just within the past
week or so -- I forgot to bookmark it, so I don't know where it is.  Anyone
else have either the article or the original?  And if anyone has Gartner's
article citation, I'd like to have that too.

Thanks!

Jan

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