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Date: | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:20:02 -0500 |
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Tinea ("Ringworm") is a fungus that infects the skin, not the milk. If
the pump does not touch the infected areas of the breast, I would not
expect the fungus to be in the milk. How vulnerable is the baby? Is
donor milk available if the mother's milk is not used while she is being
treated?
One mom in my practice found that expressing some milk and rubbing it
onto her tinea lesions (in addition to ketoconazole) improved her
healing time. Generally, antifungals increase resistance to the tinea
fungus in newly forming skin layers, but do not kill the fungus in
infected skin. Therefore, skin must slough and newly resistant skin
take its place before the infection is clear.
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Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC New York City mailto:[log in to unmask]
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