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Magda Sachs <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:29:15 +0100
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In the Sept 2001 issue of MIDIRS there is an article repirnted from
Midwifery Today (2000) 56 39-41 'Vitimin K: a flaw in the blueprint?' by
Sara Wickham.

My favourite part:

"There are low levels of vitamin K in breastmilk (formula contains the high
amounts of vitamin K which babies need.[One statement usually made, which
Wickham then analyses]:
'low' levels in relation to what?  To formula?  Which came first?  Surely we
can't be using artificially treated and processed cow's milk as the baseline
against which to measure the constituents of human breast milk?"  etc.

She goes on to point out that the studies which identified low vit K were
done a while ago, when restricted feeds were the common practice, and vit K
is a fat soluble.  If these tests were redone, we might get a different
result.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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