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>Have any of you ever worked with a breastfeeding baby needing a stem cell
>transplant? Have you ever heard that the baby would need to wean before
>the procedure? Any insights from those of you at Children's Hospitals or
>Cancer Centers would be appreciated.
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>Ginna Wall, MN, IBCLC
I hope someone with more medical knowledge answers this, but I had a
thought that if this is like a bone marrow transplant, then the
immunocompetent lymphocytes that are in human milk just might
theoretically (or really?) cause graft-versus-host disease. In this
case, it may be a risk to the success of the procedure.
Hope I am not totally off the track!
Joy (a medical technologist in my 'past life', but this is a loooong time ago)
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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia breastfeeding counsellor
Perth, Western Australia. mailto:[log in to unmask]
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