Hi Anne,
Can you tell us how you would recommend doing a breastmilk culture?
I thought it would be collected like a clean catch midstream urine culture.
Something like this: mother washes hands, mother washes breast with some sort
of antiseptic? Mother expresses streams of milk but does not collect, then mother
catches stream of milk into sterile container. Mother is instructed not to touch the
nipple or the inside of the container.
Is that close? This would be important if we had to suggest this to one of our docs, with
a pt whose breast pain or other s/s were not resolving.
Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC
Mississippi USA


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