Kate, you wrote:
> but the conclusion, copied here, is extremely strange,
> isn't it?
>
> "Therefore, in many developing countries where both
> HIV and other microbial infections are endemic and
> life-threatening, children would benefit from
> lactoferrin-enriched formula or lactoferrin
> supplement."

I thought about this too, but wondered if the researchers meant that when
the mother is HIV+, breastfed babies would receive a lactoferrin boost (as
in medicine drops), while bottle fed babies would receive enriched formula.
(Do you think I am too optimistic?!)  And my further thought was that "If it
makes doctors comfortable with an HIV+ mother breastfeeding, then
lactoferrin drops might be a good thing."

I am extremely uncomfortable with anything that alters the balance of the
natural course of breastfeeding, but I would rather see a baby receiving a
little lactoferrin drop X times a day and continue breastfeeding, than be
put on to artificial milks.

I would just like to know how they decided that artificially administered
lactoferrin is "perfectly safe", as they say, in whatever quantities are
going to be needed.  Have there been any human trials, or are we just as the
stage of little lab rat babies receiving megadoses of lactoferrin?  Valerie,
this is your forte - do you have any further information for us?

Jacquie Nutt IBCLC
South Africa

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