In einer eMail vom 9-2-2003 4:34:13 West-Europa (standaardtijd) schreibt
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> The researchers spiked/innoculated human milk with hiv-1 and pasteurized it.
> No virus was recovered after pasteurization.  But to me the really
> interesting part of this research occured to the control human milk that was
> spiked with hiv-1 and not heated.  They could not recover the hiv-1 virus.
> The virus was inactivated.  They discuss past studies that have shown that
> the lipids in milk dissolve or disrupt envelope viruses (hiv is an enveloped
> virus).

Yesterday I was browsing medline for something else, when I came across a
study on lactation and HIV. One sentence caught my eye (but I didn't read
further, for I was looking for something else), saying that transmission
through breastfeeding was higher when the HIV+ mom had cracked nipples or
mastitis.
That made me realise that it is not the milk that is the most "dangerous" for
the child, but the breastfeeding circumstances.

Warmly greeting,

Gonneke

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Gonneke  van Veldhuizen
IBCLC,LLLL, MOM, primairyschool teacher

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