On 24/10/2006, at 4:50, Nina Berry wrote:

> At the very first lactation conference I went to, I heard a woman  
> speak
> about her study of the use of paw paw cream in lactation.  She had  
> found
> that the use of paw paw cream was associated with an increase in  
> cases of
> mastitis.

A lot of people aren't aware that the most popular pawpaw ointment  
here, which is sold in health food stores and has terrific PR as  
"natural", is around 96% petrolatum. Only the "active" ingredients  
has to be labelled under TGA regulations.

Lara

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