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Naomi Bar-Yam <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 May 2001 23:21:26 -0400
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>Regarding Kate McMurry's very interesting post about
>increased mortality amoung HIV+ African moms who
>breastfed...got me thinking.  Could increased
>mortality be due in part to the naturally altered
>hormonal state of a bfing mother?  I don't know a lot
>of the details of how HIV proliferates in the human
>body; however, I cared for several pregnant women with
>cancer during my years in high-risk OB.  Sadly, cancer
>loves few things like it loves pregnancy.  Not only
>does the disease progress more rapidly during
>pregnancy (a slightly hypermetabolic state), but
>chemotherapy, and often radiation, are
>contraindicated.  Could the hormones of breastfeeding
>have a similar effect on HIV?
>All you biochemistry and biology buffs...any thoughts?
For what it is worth to the conversation, it is
my understanding the MS is also exacerbated by
pregnancy.
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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