Thank you Cathy as usual for your polite and informative reply.  We also had an old Egnell pump in work, going strong after 27 years still.  There is no doubt to the difference in performance with the higher quality machines.

My question however, still relates to the mini elecric or PNS.
I think Patricia had the same question.
Fact, we all know the "gook" can collect in these pumps.  Logic would tell me it is full of bacteria.  Was there any proper research done on this issue?  And if there was, and the bacteria can be spewed out through a motor that cannot be sterilized, I just do not get the difference in terms of why it is then OK for a single user pump.  What about twins?  What about a mother that had a crazy time fighting thrush?  Does that mean that same mother would then reinfect herself?  What about a mother that had a baby after a previous one when she had infection?
True, what Cindy said, it is her own infection, BUT I still would not like to reinfect myself even with my own bacteria!
So, I left unclear on this issue once again.
Thanks,
Jessica Billowitz, IBCLC
Israel

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