In a message dated 8/29/2004 9:41:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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i just got a nearly hysterical mom from a
mother who's 14 mo old infant was just dx'ed with rickets.  obviously a
few minutes of sun a few times a week wasn't enough in her latitude to
protect her.   and rickets is the *end* stage of d deficiency.
Dear Friends:
    Maybe her latitude required more than 'a few minutes' a week? I am also
curious about this diagnosis. (I recognize that this particular mother and this
particular baby have a situation that must be dealt with).
    I have seen laboring mothers diagnosed with 'failure to progress' which
was actually 'failure of the physician to wait'. I have seen babies diagnosed
with 'breastmilk jaundice' when it was no such thing. I have known mothers
terrified by their pediatricians who have used the term 'failure to thrive' for
babies who have merely slowed their growth rate.
So I am curious about this diagnosis of rickets and wonder if we will see
more of that?
    Daily sunbaths were part of standard infant care in the 1950s.
    Seems to me that manufacturers want to patent everything we need to make
a supplement that will have to be purchased. Valerie has showed us how human
milk components are patented for sale; now sunlight extract will be sold
because some agency says that the natural source is too dangerous and we have to
give our babies yet another synthetic derivative?
    What's next? Air extracts (humans are certainly destroying clean air),
clean water supplements (ditto). Amazing that the only thing that can't be
isolated and patented seems to be semen.....
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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