Gail, thank you for sending in this link. Yes, indeed, fascinating
technology, but very depressing and unclear efficacy....
Unfortunately, use of this formula for delivering a nasty-tasting HIV
prophylactic drug would guarantee that in order to receive the drug
for her baby in a nice palatable form the mother would have to
abandon breastfeeding. Note too that the authors expect the drug to
be given to babies over 4 weeks of age....
Furthermore, breastfed babies of mothers receiving ART and who have
achieved an undetectable viral load are not normally given
prophylaxis themselves beyond 6 weeks of age. So what's with this research??
Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England
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This is fascinating.
http://news.psu.edu/story/334089/2014/11/11/research/altered-milk-protein-can-deliver-aids-drug-infants?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_content=12-18-2014&utm_campaign=research%20newswire
Gail Hertz, MD, IBCLC, FABM
Author of The Little Green Book of Breastfeeding Management
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