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Kathy says:
<<Personal use pumps are considered single user items by the US Food and
Drug Administration. This means they are meant for one mother only due
to possible cross contamination of germs. Medela's pumps are an open
system of tubing which means that the air and milk can mix. You often
see condensation in the tubing, especially with Symphony pumps. Check
the FDA web site about a NICU baby that was harmed by bacteria growing
in this tubing (it was cultured from the tubing). I do not know the web
site address but it is a matter of public record.>>
One wonders with all this if it is safe for a woman to use her pump on
Tuesday and then use it again on Friday. After all, if there is bacteria, there
is bacteria, and if it comes from the air, as Kathy suggested, why would it be
safe for the mother herself to use? Or why would it be safe for her to use
with baby number one, and then again with baby number two? Is that any safer
for baby number two than for her to loan it to her sister?
From a legal/ethical perspective, I cannot recommend the trading of pumps
back and forth from person to person, but when one pays over $300 for a piece
of equipment that may have been used only a few times, the mother doesn't
"get" why she can't loan it to a friend....
Biggest problem I see is the pump's efficacy plummets, and as Kathy pointed
out, the mother then blames her milk supply and her body rather than the pump.
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
_Lactation Education Consultants_
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/)
_My blog_ (http://www.motherofbridebyjan.blogspot.com/)
_Year of the MC_ (http://www.marriedcouplebytorrey.blogspot.com/)
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