Some quick thoughts and info - quick, as I'm not reading LactNet mail right
now and I have a work-related deadline to meet this afternoon.
As noted, there is almost no research but there is a lot of evidence of the
benefits of human milk for infants that can be transferred to adult
patients. You could mine Lawrence for references to human milk supporting
gut integrity, gut healing, nutritional absorption, etc.
Have you contacted a milk bank for info/support?
FYI,
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has a position paper on the use
of donor human milk containing the following. (DHM = donor human milk)
"In the United Kingdom, milk from human milk banks is used almost
entirely for infants in special care nurseries or those with special
needs in infancy. In the USA, only 30% of DHM is used in special
care nurseries. Other conditions managed with DHM include malabsorption,
short-gut syndrome, intractable diarrhoea, nephrotic syndrome, some
congenital anomalies, formula intolerance, failure to thrive and
immune deficiencies (27) ."
<snip>
27 Asquith MT, Pedrodoti PW, Stevenson DK, et al. Clinical uses, collection
and banking of human milk. Clin Perinatol 1987; 4:173-85.
See this article in Leaven for a list of possible clinical uses:
http://www.lalecheleague.org/llleaderweb/LV/LVAprMay00p19.html
It contains this quote:
"Use of donor milk has shifted in the last 10 years from being
used nearly exclusively for premature infants to currently being used
for older infants and children with major nutritional or immunological
problems, as well as for the occasional adult.
I believe Lois Arnold authored an article a few years ago that discussed
potential uses in adults, but I can't lay my hands on the reference at the
moment.
Also,
Naomi Bar-Yam noted:
>
> 4. Is she hospitalized? That would make it more difficult to give her
> breast milk if the doctor doesn't approve, but at home you can try
> anything you want.
Although I found it necessary to get a doctor to provide written orders to
allow my husband to receive breast milk when he was hospitalized for his
second craniotomy and shunt operation, most of the doctors we encountered
supported his intake of human milk, saying, "it can't hurt."
-- Jodine Chase
Who promises someday soon to take the bits and pieces of info she's
collected on human milk use for adults and put them up on a web site...
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