A former doula client sent me this info.

Can someone explain this article to me ?

And wouldn't a mother who is exclusively
bfing her child, here, in the US significantly reduce
her infant's chance of even acquiring the rotovirus 
whether she had IgA levels or not ?

I believe this article might be interpreted by
some American mothers that they should stop
bfing for a period of time should they choose 
to immunize their child agains the rotovirus.

Or, am I making a big deal out of nothing ?

Kathy Koncelik, CPD
LLLL

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Age of Autism
Daily Web Newspaper of the Autism Epidemic
www.ageofautism.com/2010/05/breast-not-best-study-suggests-rotavirus-vaccines-work-better-with-formula-.html#comments
Editor:  Dan Olmsted	Managing Editor:  Kim Stagliano 	Editor-at-Large:  Mark Blaxill

Rotavirus vaccines are heavily promoted in third world nations where lack of clean water and proper healthcare often leads to infection, diarrhea and even death. This abstract below from The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
suggests that mothers should not breastfeedduring the time of administration of rotavirus vaccines (RotaTeq and Rotarix) in order to increase their efficacy. How would women, who do not have access to clean water, make safe infant formula which, we believe, requires clean water? 
Background: Live oral rotavirus vaccines have been less immunogenic and efficacious among children in poor developing countries compared with middle income and industrialized countries for reasons that are not yet completely understood. We assessed whether the neutralizing activity of breast milk could lower the titer of vaccine virus and explain this difference in vitro.

Methods: Breast milk samples were collected from mothers who were breast-feeding infants 4 to 29 weeks of age (ie, vaccine eligible age) in India (N = 40), Vietnam (N = 77), South Korea (N = 34), and the United States (N = 51). We examined breast milk for rotavirus-specific IgA and neutralizing activity against 3 rotavirus vaccine strains-RV1, RV5 G1, and 116E using enzyme immunoassays. The inhibitory effect of breast milk on RV1 was further examined by a plaque reduction assay.

Findings: Breast milk from Indian women had the highest IgA and neutralizing titers against all 3 vaccine strains, while lower but comparable median IgA and neutralizing titers were detected in breast milk from Korean and Vietnamese women, and the lowest titers were seen in American women. Neutralizing activity was greatest against the 2 vaccine strains of human origin, RV1 and 116E. This neutralizing activity in one half of the breast milk specimens from Indian women could reduce the effective titer of RV1 by ~2 logs, of 116E by 1.5 logs, and RV5 G1 strain by ~1 log more than that of breast milk from American women.

Interpretation: The lower immunogenicity and efficacy of rotavirus vaccines in poor developing countries could be explained, in part, by higher titers of IgA and neutralizing activity in breast milk consumed by their infants at the time of immunization that could effectively reduce the potency of the vaccine. Strategies to overcome this negative effect, such as delaying breast-feeding at the time of immunization, should be evaluated.

(C) 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.



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