This discussion brought to mind an experience I had last year. One of my relatives has had extensive treatment and many hospitalizations for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, complete with bleeding, etc. I remember that as a child, his parents kept goats on their farm because he got excema from homemade formula made of evaporated cow's milk. He has also always been one for reading on whatever alternative treatments for whatever ailments he's interested in, such as chelation for atherosclerosis and others. He of course, tries to "win" me over to reading his newsletters on health and miracle working "non-mainstream medicine" approaches, though he has avoided surgery so far by being placed on Prednisone. I decided to "turn the tables" on him last year when I heard him mention the fact that cow colostrum was being sold in health food stores. I suggested a trial of human breastmilk, and told him I knew a very reliable co-worker with a freezer so full of it she didn't know what to do. So he accepted enough for a week. I later learned that it stayed and stayed and stayed in the freezer till his wife finally threw it out. Though I never asked him up front, I suspect it was too much of a psychological hurdle for him to think of swallowing that "ew-w-w-w!" human milk, (although he was very pleased that his daughter had earlier breastfed all her babies long term.) Maybe it was just too "un-macho" for him. It has since occurred to me that perhaps I should have just taken over some instant pudding made with the human milk, and perhaps not even have told him about it till after he ate the first dish of it!!! Jean ************ K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC Dayton, Ohio USA *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html