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Date: | Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:58:51 EST |
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Dear Friends:
The study with bacterial counts was interesting.
I wonder if the real value of this study, where infants didn't get sick,
is to show that the food in my refrigerator is safe.
Seriously, I wouldn't want anyone to culture the leftovers from five
nights ago; I ate them yesterday for lunch and am totally fine.
I wonder if our emphasis on germ-free is excessive. I was in the
hospital yesterday and wondered: where to all those gloves that people use go? Into
some landfill where they will sit for thousands of years? What good is it to
keep my hands covered in plastic when the earth will be full of more germs
and non-natural substances than it is meant to handle?
But on the other hand, there are some pretty nasty (and relatively new)
bugs now: C. Difficile and MRSA to name but a few. Except that they weren't a
problem when I started in healthcare, 30+ years ago. No one had even heard
of them. Is it possible that all of our efforts to thwart germs aren't as
effective as we'd like?
And we also have so many immunocompromised people now, more than when I
started my career!
What to do?
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
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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