On 03/10/2005, at 7:49, Laura Hart, RN, BSN, IBCLC wrote:

> Laura Hart, Winter Park, FL
> Comparison of the Cariogenicity of Cola, Honey, Cow Milk, Human  
> Milk, and
> Sucrose
> Conclusions. Our data show that the use of honey, cola, and sucrose  
> water in
> nursing bottles should be discouraged. Although human milk is more  
> cariogenic
> than cow milk, it is no more cariogenic than are common infant  
> formulas.
> Protracted exposure to human milk or formula through allowing an  
> infant to sleep on
> the nipple should be discouraged, and the need for oral hygiene  
> after tooth
> eruption should be emphasized.

The full study is available for subscribers here:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/116/4/921

I have a couple of questions:
- How comparable is pooled milk, thawed after months of freezing, to  
live mother's milk in this situation?
- How valid is the assumption that a desalivated rat model drinking  
ad libitum is comparable to an infant sleeping on the breast?

Lara Hopkins

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