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Re: Police officer and lead exposure
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gonneke van veldhuizen <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:03:10 -0700
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Dear friends,

I don't understand why women start to worry about exposure to environmental chemicals when they breastfeed, when it does not stop them from getting pregnant and expose their very much more vulnarable unborn child to the chemicals they will probably have already built up in their systems. What the baby might get in with mom's milk is probably much less than through the placenta and it will have less effect now then when his organs where being built.

Does this make sense or am I missing anything?

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer in southern Netherlands




--- On Wed, 8/18/10, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] Police officer and lead exposure
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 5:22 PM

I just received a call from a mother of a 5 month old exclusively breastfed baby who is a police officer. She is returning to work and must re-qualify on the firing range and is concerned about lead exposure. Her ammunition is lead free but other firearms are discharged on this range that use lead ammunition. Where can she get information on how to do this safely and avoid lead exposure in her milk?


Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA








 

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