I go to a Russian parenting board and try to provide reliable information
about breastfeeding.  Here is a very common scenario to an unusual stool
colour that a child has.  "My breasfed baby has green watery stools"  "Oh,
your baby probabl has disbacteriosis.  You have to go have some tests
done".  I have been struggling for a year to understand what it is, who set
the standards for acceptable limits of bacteria in brestfed baby's
stomach.  The usual treatment is populating the stomach with bifidus,
sometimes a swich to formula.  The most recent case I heard was that a
mother gave her child an infection of steptococcus aurelis.  The child
doesn't have any symtoms.  I understand the baby was getting pumped milk.
Is it possible?

My questions are: Do American diagnose something like this?  If so, how
common is the lack or overgrowth of pathologic bacteria in breastfed
babies?  How often is any treatment is required?

Another statement I read was that some St-Petersburg research institite
makes some sort of drug using colostrum.  According to them, every forth
woman's colostrum doesn't have IgA.  Is it possible?

Sorry, if the questions are stupid.  I have tried talking to other people,
looked on the Net, but haven't found any explanations.

Nataliya Wilson.

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