Valerie,
I always admire the way you can ask questions ehat make people rethink their
thoughts.


> What is dangerous circumstances?  Breastfeeding?  Are we basing our concerns
> on hiv transmission alone as being dangerous?  What about infant health
> incomes? What I believe we have to ask ourselves, is how the researchers
> were
> able to correlate these findings.  One accepts these statements as fact but
> if they are based on studies using human milk samples, how accurate are
> they?
> Are we saying that the intrinsic factors no longer work during bouts of
> mastitis and sore nipples?  Or are we saying that only in hiv positive
> mothers do the intrinsic factors not work. Do we know this?  Has this been
> proved?  I don't think so.
>

What I understood (from rushing through the text, which i know to be not a
very scientific way) is that it cuold be the exposure to maternal blood from
a cracked nipple or the exposure to the fluids from the mastitis (don't know
how to say that correct in English, I'd call it 'infection product' in
Dutch)) that are accountable for the higher HIV infection in breastfeeding.

Warmly greeting,

Gonneke

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Gonneke  van Veldhuizen
IBCLC,LLLL, MOM, primairyschool teacher

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eurolac
centre for breastfeeding information and education
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/gonneke29/">http://www.geocities.com/gonneke29</A>

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