Oh Gail....This note makes me wanna shriek. (nothing personal, of course).

I cannot help but think that the cost of recording the lot numbers, doing
the procedures necessary to recover the piece of teat, etc, would have the
hospital administrators SCREAMING in the halls of the hospital......

How come Diflucan is too expensive for a breastfeeding mother, but the
complex system of  formula recall  with its  FINANCIAL COST AND POTENTIAL
RISKS, is not too expensive?  Why not just not give it out?

See,..?  It isn't that things are too expensive, or whatever. It is that
breastfeeding is not viewed as important.  Some will go to great lengths to
promote and defend their own faulty beliefs, prejudices, and stupidity.

Kathleen

Date:    Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:17:08 -0500
From:    G Hertz <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: nipples - another reeason not to give formula packs, etc.

Our hospital is now looking at a policy of recording all formula lot
numbers on "dispensed" formula - to be able to contact moms when a recall
occurs.  There was also a quick article in one of the peds journals about
reusing those disposable nipples [you know like the formula companies and
hospitals give to parents]  Apparently, a mom had reused one of these
nipples and a piece broke off and after a choking spell, they couldn't find
it. after xray and bronchoscopy they didn't find it - they then did
endoscopy and retrieved the nipple piece from the 3 month old's esophagus.
we're thinking of obtaining signed informed consent regarding handing out
the "formula advertising packs" between the formula recalls and the nipple
problem...
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
vol.153 March 1999
page 312

Gail
Gail S. Hertz, MD, IBCLC
Resident,  Dept. of Pediatrics

Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet,TLC, Indep. Consultant
Williston, Vermont
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