Katherine

Home pasteurization of breastmilk is a very 
simple method of rendering it safe from viral and 
bacterial infections.  There are two methods, but 
flash-heating has been shown to be easier - no 
clocks, the mother knows the right temperature 
has been reached when the water reaches a rolling 
boil.  Flash-heating has also been shown to 
conserve more of the immunological and nutritional properties.

1.  Pour between 50 ml - 150 ml of milk, into a clean glass jar.
2.  Put the jar in a pot containing ~450 ml of 
cold water, but with the level of water two 
finger-widths higher than the level of the milk in the jar.
3.  Flash-heating involves placing the uncovered 
jar of milk into pot of water and heating it over 
a cooking fire. Once the water boils, the milk is 
immediately removed from the water and allowed to cool.
4. Pretoria Pasteurization involves boiling the 
pot of water and then taking it off the heat. The 
covered jar of milk is then placed in the hot 
water for 20 minutes, and then removed and allowed to cool.

This is adapted from research by Kiersten Israel- 
Ballard and Bridget Jeffery and written up by me 
when I was at WABA.  For background info and 
references, see Morrison P. Pasteurization of 
breastmilk, WABALink Issue 39, Nov 2005 – Feb 
2006, available at 
<http://www.waba.org.my/resources/wabalink/pdf/Issue39/Insert1__WL39.pdf>http://www.waba.org.my/resources/wabalink/pdf/Issue39/Insert1__WL39.pdf 


There's also a little more recent background 
research, with pictures of Kiersten's studies, on 
the WABA site at http://www.waba.org.my/whatwedo/hiv/7heattreatedbreastmilk.htm

Hope this helps.  Sing out if you need more info.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England
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Date:    Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:21:05 -0500
From:    Katherine Lilleskov <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: breast milk pastuerization

I just love LN!!!! It is so mind boggling to be 
able to post a question to a whole world-wide network of LC's....

I have a question that I am sure has been 
answered in the archives, I just must be phrasing 
the search prompts wrong. I am working with a 
mother of twins who has been given some donated 
milk by an aquaintance (hope I spelled that 
right...probably why my search failed...bad 
spelling), not a close friend. She and her 
partner are nervous about using the milk since 
they don't know this woman's health history and I 
told them that I would find out about home 
pastueriztion for them. How do you do it and how 
effective is it???? What is the best site to look this up on????

Kathy Lilleskov RN IBCLC


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