[breastfeeding mother with stiffness and joint pain]

On 12/08/2005, at 21:08, gima wrote:

> Another benefit will be the healing light of the sun.  10-15  
> minutes a day on face, arms and legs before applying sunscreen will  
> improve her overall health.  Thanks to the American Cancer  
> Society's recent findings we are re-learning that safe sunlight  
> exposure is essential to health.

We're getting way outside the sphere of breastfeeding now, for which  
I apologise; I welcome followups by email. If the only reason this  
woman is resisting rheumatologist referral is that she fears that  
medications would be the only option offered, I would encourage her  
to consider that a proper diagnosis would be the best possible  
outcome from a rheumatology assessment, independent of pharmaceutical  
treatment options.

For example while sunlight can be terrific for some forms of mild  
depression, and so on, it would be a disaster for lupus erythematosus  
which can flare or present for the first time postpartum.

Lara

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