Dear Lactnetters,

I will be helping my local health department to deal with patients from a
dental practice where proper infection prevention practices were apparently
not being followed for several years.  It looks like I will be handling
phone calls or paperwork for testing for HIV, HBV, and HCV.  The risk of
diseases actually having been transmitted is currently considered to be
low.  I am hoping that there are no currently breastfeeding women getting
tested.  If there are, what do I refer them to for information about
whether to wean or pump and dump at this point?  Will they have already
been tested for all those diseases during their recent pregnancy?  I am
hoping for protocols and/or insights about infection realities.  Thanks!

Ruth Piatak, BA, MS, LLLL, IBCLC
Tulsa, Oklahoma
214-886-1218
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