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T Nutt & Associates <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Dec 1996 11:39:00 GMT+0200
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Am I the only one who is sceptical about emphasising utmost hygiene
practises when dealing with yeast? - ie boiling diapers and breast pads.  Do
these practises really do anything useful?  As I understand it, yeast is
ubiquitous and we usually live with it peacefully until there is some
imbalance in the body, or when antibiotics wipe out the flora keeping the
yeast in check. Surely the aim is to reduce the yeast overgrowth to
manageable terms (with antifungals) and to maintain the body in a state
where it can deal with yeast - eg with diet and avoiding non-absorbant
underwear.  I wonder if mothers and babies are not necessarily passing the
yeast back and forth between them, but that both are likely to be in a state
of vulnerability to yeast simultaneously.  Perhaps someone on Lactnet knows
otherwise.
        I also believe that the nursing dyad is a unit and should be treated
as such in any medical consultation.  How often do we hear of mothers who go
to their own doctor for thrush and take the baby to the paed - double
consultation fees, sometimes differing treatment, lots more effort on the
mother's part.  Yet same problem.
Jacquie Nutt, Zimbabwe

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