Yes, it's scary isn't it! Very scary! I would hope that it would be a very
small minority with this ignorance. India has some fabulous doctors who are
very knowledgeable and supportive of breastfeeding and in at least one place
where an artifically feeding mother mother presents to a hospital with a
baby with gastro the treatment involves relactation. Drs Banapurmath
published a paper with 1000 cases of relactation in Indian Pediatrics a few
years ago.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

>
> It seems to me there are not one, but two very important areas of
> knowledge lacking in the scenario described. Firstly knowledge of
> normal stooling, as we've discussed. Secondly, knowledge of best
> practice management of diarrhoea. When an infant gets gastroenteritis
> (surely the cause of well over 95% of cases of infant diarrhoea in
> India), the absolute key management point is to keep breastfeeding as
> much as possible.
>
> Lara Hopkins
>
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