If baby's gut is healed enough to tolerate that awful mixture, it's surely
healed enough to tolerate a physiologically appropriate fluid that's
designed as perfect nutrition for human infants and contains antibodies to
those viruses!!!!
Becky Saenz, MD, IBCLC



At 08:46 PM 05/03/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have been contacted by a mom who is wanting to get her four month old back
>to the breast after their long interesting and scary journey.  She has given
>me permission to post her info.
>
>Baby is four months and developed the corona virus at two months.  Baby had
>vomiting with bloody diareah, mom took baby
>to hospital and she was admitted for seven days.  While in hospital baby was
>taken off breastmilk and put on pedialite and neocate during hospital stay
>dr's instructions to stay on neocate until baby stabilized (dr's wanted to
>make sure baby didn't have golactocemia, which was ruled out) without
>vomiting and diareah. On the seventh day baby was released and mom was told
>she could resume breastfeeding in two days.
>
>  Twenty four hours after being home baby started with vomiting and diareah
>again so back to hospital and baby was admitted this time for three weeks
>due to the rotavirus and put on a pickline of sugar water with lipids to
>give her stomach a chance to heal. Once they felt baby's tummy healed they
>slowly introduced pedialite and progestomil then later adding rice cereal
>through a NG tube. Baby is receiving 24cc of this mixture every hour.  Mom
>questioned them as to why they would not use her breastmilk and the docs
>told her that they were afraid that the breastmilk might be to hard on the
>baby's tummy because of the lactose.
>
>I understand that the gut can become sensative but my understanding is that
>this is temporary and that breastmilk would be fine, am I wrong????
>
>
>To make a long story short baby is on a ng tube with progestomil and rice
>cereal and has been home now for almost two weeks.  At a doctors appt today
>doc still told mom no breastmilk and that she should increase formula
>mixture by adding a bolus of 24cc's three times a day along with what baby
>is getting from ng tube.  By the way baby weighs 11pounds.
>
>Is this because the doctor is uneducated about breastmilk or is there more
>to this and it is me that is uneducated?
>
>Help!  is this the usual treatment for these viruses and WHY not Breastmilk?
>I would think that breastmilk would be the best for this baby.  Mom is
>telling me that she is going to go against doctors wishes and introduce
>breastmilk instead of the formula mixture.  I would love to support her with
>this and give her information specifically related to these diseases and
>breastmilk, does anyone have any experience with these specific diseases and
>if so what was the treatment?
>
>One more thing I have helped her to get baby back suckling at the breast.
>
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Denice Jentlie cpd,cd,clc
>Hopefully an IBCLC oneday!
>
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