In a message dated 12/9/2003 7:43:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Should we go back to telling people to sterilize bottles and nipples,
including parents who give expressed breast milk by bottle? Any ideas on this?
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my understanding on the way adult caregivers colonize babies' mouths w/ strep
mutans is from their mouth to the baby's. when we were going to dr. kevin
hale (quoted in mothering mag in several dental concern/bfing  articles recently)
he explained that adults pass this on to  children (with teeth - there must
be teeth for it to flourish) through allowing them to eat and drink after the
adult, kissing, sucking off a paci to clean it, giving the child food right
from the adult's mouth, etc... i'm not sure sterilizing bottles and pacis would
do much to eliminate the risks.
~jacqui gruttadauria

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