Denise you wrote, "Wow thanks very much for the link to the single bottle
pasteurisation kit -
that's really good.  That should be promoted to mothers who have HIV. "

What should be promoted to HIV positive mothers is exclusive breastfeeding,
particularly in resource poor areas of the world.  Pasteurization of human
milk kills most of the lactoferrin.  Lactoferrin is the component so many
companies around the world are patenting for use in drugs, vaccines and
infant formula.  Human lactoferrin is known to inactivate bacteria, viruse,
fungi, etc.  While there are other components in human milk that mostly
survive pasteurization and help protect the infant such as IgA, I believe
that the loss of lactoferrin would be detrimental.

There are patents for the use of human lactoferrin for CMV (have posted on
this several times before).  Does seeing a virus in human milk mean that
breastfeeding should be stopped?  I suggest we are not looking at the whole
picture of how human milk works.  How does human milk work within the
infant's whole body?  Issacs, et al. in patent # 4997851 states that "human
milk becomes active against enveloped viruses [hiv is an enveloped virus]
after storage at 4 degrees, 23 degrees, and -20 degrees C. and also in the
gastrointestinal tract.  Looking in a microscope at the product--human milk,
will never give us the whole picture of how human milk works or does not
work.  It is only a part of the picture.  Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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