Teresa, you wrote:

< Mom has a HUGE (like I am
frightened by it) crack on her right nipple. >

< pumping and
bottlefeeding on right side. >

I wonder if the wound therapy experts, or anyone else, for that matter,
would ever consider putting a vacuum on any other type of a wound? An
ulcer?, A burn? A surgical incision?

Pure logic suggests to me that since "nature abhors a vacuum", the
fragile new cells trying to migrate across the surface of the wound to
heal it over would be the most likely to be disturbed from the capillary
bed and interrupt the process and have to start all over again between
pumpings! Why not teach her efficient hand expression to avoid the
vacuum. "First of all, do no harm!"

Just something to think about! Does anyone else agree?

K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio

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