Pearl wrote:
> how about a study where babies who have AIDS are given
>donated breastmilk that has NOT been pasteurized, so the immunofactors
>are not destroyed, to see if the breastmilk will cure AIDS?

Wouldn't it be dangerous to give *unpasteurized* milk to a baby with AIDS?
Just the possibility of contracting thrush from mother's milk could be
extremely detrimental to an HIV+ baby--let alone the thought of any other
microbes that might be present and able to wreck havoc in an
immuno-compromised system.

Wouldn't it be advisible to use pasteurized, or at least heat-treated human
milk, for this purpose? This would remove most of the microbial threat with
some immunoglobulin loss.

Cindy Turner-Maffei, MA, IBCLC
Massachusetts, USA