Dear Lactnetters,

I always feel like I'm dragging up things that have been discussed in the
past but I need a good answer on this one. I've search the archives and
PubMed a few times and still not come up with a conctrete answer.
The question is what do you actually advise a mother when she asks about
using stored (frozen) breastmilk that she expressed when she / baby had an
oral thrush infection / outbrake. I can't find any evidence that baby's can
become re-infected (or rather that the milk can lead to oral thrush, they
have already become infected of course), but I can't find any evidence to
show that they generally don't!

We are trying to get a guideline on this and just keep chasing our tails. I
personally don't see it as a problem and completely agree with Jack Newman's
views on this - that it's ok to use (see archives). I also believe that, by
now, if it really posed a problem then we (i.e. you lot!) would know about
it! I feel that it should be just kicked into the background as a non-entity
(for healthy babies at least) - with the inherent risks of artificial
feeding in the foreground!

Now, tell me, what do you tell mothers!?

groetjes

Sara Bernard
(in a very cold but sunny Netherlands)




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