Hi all,

This is really ridiculous.  My pediatric office was a vaccine research center for rotovirus as part of several multisite studies of this vaccine.  It was
known all along that Oral Rotavirus Vaccine was less effective in breastfeeding babies because the breastmilk would inactivate or destroy 
the live vaccine atenuated (made non disease producing) rotovirus.   This was all taken into account during the development of the vaccine.  

Of course exclusively breastfeeding babies don't need as much protection against wild type rotavirus because they receive breastmilk! 

Penny Soppas MD, IBCLC
Just outside of Philadelphia, USA,




Judy Ritchie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/are-vaccines-more-important-than-breastfeed
> ing/
> 
> Are Vaccines More Important than Breastfeeding?
> by Christina England
> 
> Just when we thought the world could not get any more insane, it does! News
> came in today of a study entitled ŒInhibitory Effect of Breast Milk on
> Infectivity of Live Oral Rotavirus Vaccines' advising nursing mothers to
> delay breast-feeding until after vaccinations.

I believe this has been widely misquoted and misinterpreted on anti-vacc
websites. The authors don't suggest delaying all breastfeeding until
after vaccinations are completed; they suggest that it should be
investigated whether "delaying breast-feeding at the time of
immunization" might increase efficacy.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20442687>

All this means is suggesting to mothers that they plan, on the day of
immunisation, to put the vaccine in the middle of a feeding cycle,
instead of near a feed. And the authors suggest that such strategies
should be evaluated, not instantly enacted or enforced.  It's not part
of the current published Product Information or administration
instructions in Australia.

<http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Cont
ent/Handbook-rotavirus>

Lara Hopkins



 
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