Dear Jan,
i could swear I saw a letter about this in JHL a few years ago.  The LC who
sent in the letter was lactating at the time , and gave her adult friend a
small amount of her own freshly expressed milk.  The friend had been
suffering thru a particularly debilitating bout of colitis, and after just
the one dose of EBM, she went into remission, and had been symptom free for
years at the time the letter was written.  I don't know how to search for
old JHL items, other than paging thru my back issues, which I don't have
time for at the moment.  If you know of a more efficient way to search JHL,
please let me know.
Good Luck!
Martha Johnson RN IBCLC
Eugene, Oregon, where it is hailing ,AGAIN!

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> Sent:         Friday, April 09, 1999 7:34 AM
> Subject:      human milk for GI troubles
>
> Any info about drinking human milk for colitis/Crohn's type diseases would
> be
> appreciated.  Just saw a mom this morning who has an odd (don't remember
> the
> name of it) colitis type of disease which went into remission during the
> middle of the pregnancy, but exacerbated the last two months.
>
> She is on Rowasa enema -- anyone know anything about that?  I suggested
> that
> she try breastmilk, but wasn't sure how much -- I thought 4 ounces a day
> sounded good -- but that was purely off the top of my head.  Anyone have
> any
> ideas?
>
> Jan
>

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