At a women's breakfast a friend told me a story "I could appreciate" about her first breastfeeding experience, with the warning tell lactnetters NOT to do this.  This new mom (now  a grandmother) leaked profusely with her first baby and thought there had to be something she could do about it.  Her father had used collodion on the cows teats between milking to keep the ones with loose sphincter muscles from dripping and loosing milk.  After milking, the cow's teat would be dipped in the solution and a hard covering would form at the end which could be easily seen before the next milking and popped off. So, she called up the dairy "drug supplier" and asked for a supply hoping he would think it was just for her dad's cows. Well, the stuff burned like H--- and it DID form an impenetrable barrier that she could NOT just pop off at the next feeding. The women's eyebrows went up with horror at this and they asked what she did.  She had a hungry screaming baby that she was afraid to nurse because she didn't know what collodion would do if he swallowed it and painfully had to pick the seal off in little pieces- probably with pieces of her!  We decided that cows must not have much feeling in their teats or they would kick? 

I had a hard time finding anything about collodion on line and am wondering if there are any dairy farmers out there that still use this?

Karen Graham, IBCLC central PA dairyland

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