At 30/07/0401:34 PM-0400, you wrote:
Pam I suspect you may be right - we don't know.
Some thoughts I've had:
- breastmilk has low protein levels so lactation should be a much much
lesser drain on the mother's capacity to maintain her own health than the
pregnancy would have been
- the amount of protein that we in privledged cultures eat is way more than
is needed.  Perhaps the place to start researching this question would be
with the work of those working in the poorer areas of Africa.  I'm positive
you would find answers there.  I just can't quite think of the name right
now but Anne someone published a lot of research on calcium requirements
during lactation and I'm sure she has also studied the effects of low
protein intake.  (Could someone please help me out with the researcher's name?)

My suggestion would be to start breastfeeding and keep an eye on the mother
- I doubt there will be any problems whatsoever with her breastmilk, and
likely the same with her own health in view of the fact that she can grow a
baby.

JMHO
Denise

>Date:    Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:03:49 EDT
>From:    Pamela Mazzella Di Bosco <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: renal disease and breastfeeding
>
>Okay, so does the lack of response indicate the lack of answers?  Haha. I am
>really hoping that someone on this list has at least once worked with a
>breastfeeding mother with 70% renal failure on a minimal protein
>allowance. She is
>not on dialysis.  She is pregnant and wants to breastfeed her baby. Now I am
>wondering if the need for protein during lactation would be higher without
>damaging the kidneys further?  Is there no answer and that is why we
>cannot find
>one?

Denise Fisher
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