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Anesthesiologists do NOT consider human milk a clear fluid.
The 3-hour guideline deal is very debatable in the professional
literature, both in the US and in Great Britain (and probably
elsewhere.) I have a current bibliography and would be happy to share
it with you if you private e-mail me with your snail-mail address.
>I found this in the archives. Does any one know, is it still true? And if
>the person who wrote it recognizes it ( I changed it a little), may I use it
>in a letter to physicians?
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>at Boston Children's Hospital they consider breastmilk a clear fluid, and it
>is listed right there in the printed-information guidelines, alongside juice
>and water, as something the child CAN have up to 3 hours pre-op. Formula is
>listed as somthing the child CANNOT have. As I am sure you are aware, this is
>widely considered to be among the best anaesthesia departments in the county.
> Thanks, Chris Betzold NP
>
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Marie Biancuzzo
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Resources to simplify breastfeeding management are available at
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