Beste Lactnetters,

Just wondering whether the Sears / Lancet artikel is still doing the rounds
in the media  / patient magazines etc.  Here in the Netherlands it keeps
rearing it's ugly head. The most recent being an article in a patient
orientated magazine for asthma sufferers (and families). The headline being
"mothersmilk doesn't protect children against allergie and asthma".
Unbelievable, that you can be so stupid as to draw such conclusions by
reading one article!  Every time I see this headline it is quite clear from
the following article that whoever wrote it doesn't have a clue and quite
clearly don't bother to check out the evidence available from other
articles, or gee, even read the dam article. It's like a worm that winds
it's way around the press.  Drives me nuts.
You'd think that if your an editor of a patient orientated magazine with the
aims of supporting, educating, informing patients with for example asthma,
you'd be a little less dumb!

Has this article had such an impact in the general media in other countries?
And if so what have you been doing about it?

Sara Bernard BSc
The Netherlands


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