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Subject:	Re: Bacterial "Contamination" of Premie Milk
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Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2000 02:14:38 EDT
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Staph epi is NORMAL SKIN FLORA and is always cultured from breastmilk!!!!
Up to 10,000 col/ml of normal skin flora is OK and NORMAL.  See AAP 2000
Redbook page 100, last line of paragraph 2:  "Routine culturing or heat
treatment of a mother's milk fed to her infant has not been demonstrated to
be necessary or cost-effective."
Nancy Wight MD, FAAP, IBCLC
Neonatologist
San Diego, CA

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