>On 15/11/2005, at 15:35, Phyllis Adamson wrote:
>
>>The AAP in Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk says that alcohol
>>concentrates in the milk. Don't recall if they gave a citation for that
>>statement, or an explanation of how it concentrates in the milk.
>
>That part of their statement was challenged here at the time  of 
>publication, and nobody here was able to come  up with any evidence 
>in support of it.
>
>Lara Hopkins


It doesn't concentrate in the breastmilk - it diffuses back into the 
bloodstream.

http://www.cfpc.ca/cfp/2002/Jan/vol48-jan-clinical-1.asp

"Because alcohol elimination follows zero-order kinetics, drinking 
water, resting, or "pumping and dumping" breast milk will not 
accelerate elimination.12 Unlike urine, which stores substances in 
the bladder, alcohol is not trapped in breast milk, but is constantly 
removed as it diffuses back into the bloodstream.2"

The reference is this one:

Lawton ME. Alcohol in breast milk. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 1985;25:71-3.


Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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