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Date: | Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:36:59 +0100 |
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There was a reference a while back to children developing peanut allergies
after their mothers used peanut oil as a massage oil on their breasts.
Last year, while I was battling a skin problem around my eyes, I used
lanolin several different times. I'd put it around my eyes at bedtime. In
the morning, I'd have an oily film over my vision that took a while to
clear. No lanolin, no film.
My guess was that as it warmed it "crept" across my skin in small
quantities, ending up in places I hadn't put it. I imagine any lotion that
we use on our breasts could have the potential to "creep" beyond where we
use it - possibly to our areolae and thus to our babies.
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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