Debbie,

I just had a similar question on Lyme disease and I summarized what I found
here (references at the bottom):
http://www.kellymom.com/health/illness/lyme-disease.html 

I've found one more paper by Lawrence & Lawrence that mentions Lyme disease
& breastfeeding in the abstract (Lawrence RM, Lawrence RA. Breast milk and
infection. Clin Perinatol. 2004 Sep;31(3):501-28.) I'm trying to get a copy,
but I'm expecting to find that it's similar to the info in the 2005 edition
of their textbook.

I'd love to see more information on this subject.

>>In my foggy memory, I seem to recall about a year or so ago a report of
'the first case of Lyme disease being transferred via breastmilk???

All I've run across is a 1995 paper where researchers detected DNA
associated with Lyme disease in breastmilk - the babies of these two moms
did not get Lyme disease and the paper has very little information on the
breastmilk results (it was mainly concerned with urine testing - Schmidt et
al, 1995). 

There was a very highly publicized case a few years ago where West Nile
virus was detected in a mom's milk - could this be what you're thinking of?
The baby's blood tested positive for antibodies but the baby never got sick.
Many of the news reports referred to it as a case of West Nile being
transmitted via breastmilk.

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Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCLC, RLC
http://www.kellymom.com
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