Nikki Lee writes:

>     Would you use your best friend's toothbrush? Or her  husband's?
>     If not, then how could one share milk without some  precaution?  
> At a
> microbiological level, there isn't much difference.
>

This is a good analogy.  However, the choices are to either use your  
best friend's toothbrush, or a cow's toothbrush.  The cow's  
toothbrush has been known to occasionally cause both mild and serious  
illnesses and will not get your teeth as clean.  The friend's  
toothbrush has theoretical risk.

It is definitely chilling, however, to think about how breastfeeding  
and human milk would be blamed if there were ever one case of a baby  
contracting a virus from shared milk.  I wish so much that banked  
human milk were readily available to every baby, so we wouldn't even  
need to worry about this!

Lynnette Hafken, MA, LLLL, IBCLC

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