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Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Jul 2018 06:18:54 -0400
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IBLCE should be issuing a revised and updated Scope of Practice any day now
(July 2018) but the current version is here: https://iblce.org/wp-content/
uploads/2017/05/scope-of-practice.pdf, and the new one is not expected to
change the SOP substantively.

IBLCE's 3rd (ever) Advisory Opinion, issued in 2017 and entitled Advisory
Opinion: Assessment, Diagnosis and Referral  https://iblce.org/wp-content/
uploads/2017/05/advisory-opinion-assessment-diagnosis-referral-english.pdf
(though I assert it would more appropriately be titled Assessment,
NONdiagnosis, and Referral ...).

These are your authority for the notion that the IBCLC does **not** have
authority to recommend specific over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, salves,
ointments,etc. for a family. Their definition of medical "treatment" is
very broad, and could be construed to include OTC products.

In these sorts of situations, with my private practice clients, I say
something like "Check with your doctor [or other primary healthcare
provider] first to make sure it is OK for you, but something like ibuprofen
[or whatever] will help with that pain ..." That lets the family know what
is likely to help, puts on their shoulders the responsibility of clearing
it with their doctor, side-steps my "direct order" that they use the OTC,
but also hints that if they already know use of that OTC would be OK (no
known allergy to it, for example) then, well, their decision of what to go
ahead and do is on them.

NOTE THO that the SOP also includes our ability to provide information and
support to families on all manner of things, including complementary
therapies (which would involve information about herbs, for example).  You
can't go wrong arming families with any-and-all information, so they can
make an informed decision about healthcare in consultation with the HCP.

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