I just had to share this with Lactnet.  I was looking through the April
Redbook and saw this caption "Can milk prevent yeast infections?"  This is
what it said:
>New research from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor
suggests that drinking milk may help prevent yeast infections.  In a study of
251 women, those with yeast infections were four times less likely to be
drinking two or more glasses of milk a day than those without yeast
infections.  The link: Milk may contain an anti-yeast property similar to
that found in live-culture yogurt, says professor of family medicine Barbara
D. Reed, MD.  If you want to test the research, a six week trial of two cups
of milk daily is a no-risk option.<
Now, this sounds very flimsy for research but I see it as only helpful for
our cause.
If cow's milk is good at fighting yeast then BREAST MILK is should be even
better.
So any clinician who tells a mother with a yeast infection that her milk is
not good for her baby, just site this study!
Food for thought :-P
Ann Perry RN, IBCLC
Boston, MA

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