I've been a little slow on the uptake with a totally miserable cold acquired from my son's nursery school. Wish I were breastfed and had some extra immunity right now. I have to say I am constantly amazed at how health care practitioners in the United States can sometimes be so far behind what has been common practice in developing countries for the 20+ years I've been working in International Development. I don't know how many campaigns I have seen in countless countries to encourage women to continue to breastfeed as much or more during diarrhea AND use oral rehydration. Its so well accepted that I was at a loss for which references (there are so many that you'd have to narrow your search) would be best to suggest. My first thought was to look at what WHO and UNICEF currently have to say, but I guess my bias is that here in the US, we think that info isn't for us. Being sick and somewhat lazy I took advantage of the fact that ILCA just sent me information on their new position paper on Infant Feeding During Emergency Conditions (I still remember calling up CNN in a snit during the last Gulf War over their ridiculous coverage of how terrible it was that the infant milk factories were destroyed and futilely tried to explain that this was probably a GOOD thing because they might breastfeed rather than die from diarrhea). While checking out the paper on emergency conditions I also checked out their position paper on Infant Feeding had pertinent references to health care practitioners who recommend discontinuing breastfeeding during diarrhea. Check out: "Point 30. Research indicates that infants with diarrhea recover faster if human milk is provided." There are some very good references that you can start with. Maybe I'll have the energy to check out the American Academy of Pediatrics site on the topic as well. Best regards, Susan Burger *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html