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Muriel Lafarge <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:27:31 -0500
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Dear colleagues,

I am a consulting physician at Lanaudière's Public Health department in Joliette, Québec.

A community group helping women with their breast feeding asked me a question to wich I had no satisfactory answer.

This group is offering to feeding mothers some breast-feeding material.  The kit thez provide consists mainly of :
- a manual breast pump
- an electrical breast pump
- shields of Woolrich
- and other technical aid for breast feeding.


The community group would like to use a sterilizer (autoclave) available at their CLSC (local health and social services center).  This way, they would be able to reuse part of the kt they are giving out to breast-feeding mothers.

Their question was about the effectiveness of this method (sterilizing by autoclave) to eliminate the risk of HIV and hepatits transmission.

At this time, with the help of a microbiologist and the "Leche League", i came up with a possibility for these viruses to survive this method of sterilization.  Furthermore, il seems Health Canada have not given out clear guidelines on this matter.

I would really appreciate your opinion or any comments regarding this topic.  You can reach me at (450) 759-1157, ext. 4454 or by fax at (450) 755-3961 or via e-mail at [log in to unmask]


Thank you for you help,

Muriel Lafarge, MD

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