> From: "Janet Simpson, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Hi All,
> I am doing my research, but I am having a diufficult time finding accessible
> (to me) research/documentation (or any for that matter) that details the
> benefits of human milk for immunocompromised adults.  I have the father of
> my youngest sons best friend who is extremely ill with diabetes related
> complications - kidneys barely funtion (if at all), on dialysis weekly, eyes
> damaged from the diabetes, and no immune system to speak of.  He is
> repeatedly hospitalized for 1-2 wks each month for illness due to no immune
> system.  Each time he is hospitalized he comes home worse than before.  His
> wife is desperate to find alternative treatment...she is very interested in
> using human milk if it will help her husband regain at least some of his
> health...but, of course needs to prove it to the Docs...
>
> Please e-mail off-list to [log in to unmask]
> All info much appreciated...
>
> Jaye
> still searching...


Funny thing, I just came across this yestrday. It's cited in an Infact
Canada position paper on human milk banks:

>Anderson A. Arnold LDW. Use of donor breastmilk in the nutrition management of
>chronic renal failure: three case histories. Journal of Human Lactation 9,
>263-264, 1993

http://www.infactcanada.ca/sumdhm.htm##7

-- Jodine Chase

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