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Subject:	Re: HIV and breastfeeding
From:	Lynn Shea <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:14:11 EST
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In a message dated 2.14.03 11:01:08 AM, Valerie writes:


> I find it very difficult in the light of how unreliable this testing is and
> the confusion of maternal antibodies in the infant's bloodstream to believe
> that we have the evidence to believe that breastfeeding is one of the 
> routes
> of hiv transmission.  The case that was brought up on this list as the 
> first
> documented case of hiv transmission through breastfeeding must be the case 
> of
> Elizabeth and Ariel Glasser.  I believe there is grounds to believe that it
> was blood transfusions, not breastfeeding, that caused that hiv 
> transmission.
> 
The mother received a transfusion but I don't remember hearing that the baby 
did as well,   is this true?

Lynn Shea Rn,Bsn,Ibclc
Franklin,Massachusetts



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