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Date: | 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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