I work in a hospital and infection control advised me to bag the milk, in a
small biohazard bag, like the one used for handling specimens and put it in
its own box in the freezer or fridge. To be sure to label milk, label  bag
and label box so that the milk does not get mixed up with any other mothers
milk. Infection control was concerned that the milk might be given to
another mom by accident I guess!
D.Lopez RN, IBCLC,.RLC

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Kathleen Gale <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Do any of you who work in hospitals, have any special restrictions for
> storage of the expressed breast milk of mother's who are Hep B positive?
>
> The 2011 HMBANA publication does not seem to indicate that it is not safe
> to store in the same refrigerator as other women's EBM--it doesn't really
> discuss it.  If their is almost no chance of passing the virus through the
> milk without repeated feedings, it doesn't seem it would be a problem, and
> should be treated like any other mother's milk-put in labeled, dated
> container and that container of milk put in the baby's labeled refrigerator
> container.
>
> One of my educator staff is concerned about this.  Babies are treated with
> the vaccine and gammaglobulin because of the exposure during pregnancy....
>
> Interested to hear if any other hospitals address this in a special way....
>
> Thanks!
> Kathleen Gale RN, IBCLC, RLC
> Chicago, IL
>
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