I missed the first part of this discussion.  Are you discussing donating
to a milk bank or a mother pumping milk for her own baby?  The guidelines
are different.  The Human Milk Banking Association of North America has
guidelines for both.  Donor Milk Bank and Pumping for your own baby.  I
guess I am just curious about which you are discussing?

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:20:35 -0500 Kerri Frischknecht
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> Thankyou Dr.Jack for your prompt reply. The reason I asked these
> questions
> is because in R.Lawrences book, Breastfeeding: A guide for the
> medical
> profession 1999. Page 893 she lists reasons for temporary
> disqualification
> for active donors. The first on the list is any acute infection
> including
> fungal infections. This is always a problem for me, as the only LC
> in a
> Childrens Hospital, the Dr. in charge of the NICU always wants to
> know how
> long that these mothers should be diqualified from donating. Not
> sure of my
> source anymore but I thought 2 weeks? Dr.Lawrence doesn't say
> exactly how
> long in comparison to the other listed cases.
>
> The second querie I had was about donating after having had
> Salmonella.
> Firstly this mother was not allowed to give her own baby, a 29
> weeker at
> that stage her own milk!!! Not very good in my opinion, but this is
> what
> the Dr. ordered. (both Mum and Babe had Salmonella). In addition to
> this
> she was not and is still not allowed to donate milk to our milk
> bank,
> although this infection was 3 months ago!!!! I stand alone when I
> don't
> have something black on white in my hands, and this preferably from
> a Dr.
> This mother still has lots of milk, and will probably never use it
> all.
>
> Thanks for reading this.
> Kerri Frischknecht RN. RM. IBCLC
>
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Thank you,
Darlene Breed

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