> <<I don't know what the pathway should be called that responds to antigens
> applied locally to the skin of the breast from the baby's mouth.
> Entero-mammary means from the mother's gut to her breast.>>-Rachel from
> Norway...


I'm looking for this in the textbooks (lawrence, akre, several article on
the internet), but I cannot find this way of transfer of antigens.

According to these books the sIgA production in the breast is triggered by
antigen exposion at mucosal sites, eg in the mothers lungs, and intestines,
and maybe her saliva etc. But not via her breats itself.

Maybe someone can point me to the textbook or the research that shows that
the transfer also happens directly from mouth to breast and there triggering
sIgA production?


regards, Annelies Bon
Lay counsellor of the Dutch bf organization "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"
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