Hello all,
I have a question that probably doesn't have a firm answer but I'd 
love to hear anyone's thoughts/ideas/speculations.

A new mother is exclusively breastfeeding her baby.  The baby has 
unilateral hydronephrosis (blockage somewhere in the kidney or 
urethra that causes urine to back up).  She is aware that her milk 
has a biologically normal renal solute load for the baby's kidneys to 
deal with, and that it will also help prevent or lessen the severity 
of any infections that the baby may develop due to this condition.

The mother's question is whether she can modify her own diet in any 
way to further reduce the renal solute load of her milk.

I have re-read the chapter on biochemistry of human milk in Lawrence 
and didn't glean any new insights.  However, I don't know enough 
about kidneys and how they work to really know what to look for. 
Would altering the fatty-acid composition of the mother's diet be 
helpful?  That appears to be one of the things that can be changed -- 
many constituents of human milk having fairly fixed proportions.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Margaret
mom of 3, LLLL, APL
Longmont, CO

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