Dear All,
A brief intro...I'm an LLL leader (somewhere between 8 and 9 years),
scheduled to take the exam this summer.  I've been lurking for a few
weeks, but just ran across something that got my blood pressure rising.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (a daily paper) printed a story on the first
page of the "Health & Science" section today (the section geared mainly
to women...Ann Landers, comics, gossip column, etc.  sorry to sound so
sexist, but the target audience is women) about a device being tested in
a major Phila. hospital (has the most births in the area) that is hoped
to eliminate the need for heel sticks in newborns for jaundice testing.
The article, in referring to normal, physiologic jaundice (although they
never refer to it that way), states, "This dangerous jaundice, which
tends to appear a few days after birth, was practically eradicated in the
1950's and 60's, but has reemerged recently as babies have left the
hospital more quickly and more mothers have tried breastfeeding."  This
is the only mention of breastfeeding in the article.  If I didn't know
the truth, I'd think breastfeeding certainly caused the "dangerous
jaundice."  Do you think the writers try to be ignorant, or is it a
byproduct of having been formula fed as babies?
Lee-Ann