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Date: | Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:04:40 EST |
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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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