Please clarify.    Couldn't respiratory distress syndrome deaths  be
partially attributed to asthma, bronchitis, and RSV  among others?   If so
then  we  should include the .33/1000 deaths possibly due to  Respiratory
distress in your mathmatics.   Also you can make a case for the over 200
children who died last year of AGE that all of them would still be alive
today.   Chris Betzold NP CLE

, In a message dated 3/4/01 4:29:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

>  At least 1/2 of the current infant mortality in the
>  US is from causes which breastfeeding cannot contribute to- congenital
>  anomalies, RDS, maternal complications, placenta/cord, accidents, birth
>  asphyxia. That would account for 3.5/1000. If you look at the other half
>  SIDS, low birth weight (bottle feeding would only be secondary from reduced
>  interbirth interval), neonatal infections, pneumonia and other I would be
>  surprised if you could make a case for even 1/2 being attributable to
>  bottle-feeding.

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