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Lois Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 20 Apr 1997 19:55:23 -0500
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Please see:
Merhav, et al:  Treatment of IgA deficiency in liver transplant
recipients with human breast milk.  Transpl. Int. 8:327-329, 1995.

Arnold:  Possibilities for donor milk use in adult clinical settings - A
largely unexplored area.  J Hum Lact 12:59-60, 1996.
(There is one grievous error in this last publication - I was led to
believe that the surgery mentioned in first article cited was performed
and perfusion of the surgical field with breastmilk occurred.  I was
misinformed.  The correctioon appears in the June 1996 JHL milk banking
column.)

Apparently there is material in the Indian medical literature about
adult uses of human milk, and there is also a tradition of feeding it to
the elderly in populations which revere the elderly (see Baumslag:
Breastfeeding: cultural practices and variations.  Adv. International
Mat Child Hlth 7:36-50, 1987.  If anyone comes up with original
cross-cultural citations, please forward them to me.)

Was just sent a slide of a 72 year old man who uses donor milk for his
throat and sinus cancer.  He drips it in his nose and down his throat
and in his eyes when he gets terrible headaches, and claims it cures the
headaches.  (We should all try this????)  His throat cancer has also
disappeared, and he is doing very well.  The prescribing physician has
refused to document any observations about the case for us because "more
studies would have to be made."

What everyone needs to realize is that a case study is very valuable.
As the numbers of case studies mount up they can be used in a
meta-analysis and provide a valuable scientific piece to the literature.

Keep me posted on any cases of yours, and don't hesistate to try and get
physicians to prescribe for things that may seem a little outrageous.
They may turn out to be invaluable and the donor milk certainly will do
no harm.  It would also be best in the US to use banked donor milk from
an organized donor milk bank operating under HMBANA Guidelines.

Lois Arnold, MPH, IBCLC  Executive Director
The Human Milk Banking Association of North America

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