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This thread has raised many thoughts. I frequently recommend fenugreek for increasing milk, though I do not have fenugreek for the mother to get from me. I suggest it, and tell her where she can get it. I feel that suggesting it and having it right there would be more like "prescribing", and I am less comfortable with this, (even though I live in a culture where malpractice suits are not nearly as common as in the U.S.)
As far as "diagnosing", If a mother appears to have mastitis, I am not comfortable telling her "you have mastitis", rather I'll say something like "your appear to have the typical symptoms of mastitis". I feel there is just enough of a difference in both of these examples for me to feel that I am acting comfortably within the realm of my profession.
Yael Wyshogrod IBCLC
Rechovot, Israel
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