Dear Colleagues, have you ever done this?  I have a pt who was born with the inability to swallow thin liquids.  She has been g-tube fed exclusively breastmilk.  Now that she is on some solids, she is managing purees.  Swallow studies show these are safe, but thin liquids still get aspirated.
   So her mom wants to know if we can use all the extra breastmilk she pumps to make a thickened breastmilk which she can take by spoon.   I got some cultures (powdered), and we will use a yogurt maker.  But I wonder if anyone else has tried this?
Michelle Scott, MA, RD, IBCLC
Wellspring Nutrition and Lactation Services
632 Sand Pit Road
Mason, NH 03048
603 801-9140
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