Dear Friends:
    This germ, methicillin-resistant staph. aureus,  scares me to death. It 
has been responsible for temporary closing of a local,  very large NICU. MRSA 
brings me back to the days of pseudomonas and klebsiella,  two nasty germs that 
were responsible for temporary closings and cleaning of the  neurosurgical 
ICU that I worked in.
    That said, why in the world would anyone want to  stress a baby's immune 
system who's been exposed to MRSA by giving it  inferior food? Taking mothers' 
milk away from a baby seems dangerous, unless  banked donor milk is 
available. Scalding mothers' milk or pasteurizing it would  also make sense if there is 
documentation that MRSA is transmitted via human  milk.
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
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