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Gwen Moody <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 26 May 2006 07:49:57 +1000
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In response to the history of a woman being told not to breast feed
because of MRSA in breast milk.

Recently I worked with a woman who had absolutely no English, next to
no  income who had had twins at 32 weeks. Four weeks later she was
diagnosed with a breast abscess. Culture and sensitivity of the sample
from the abscess grew MRSA. She had had an abscess with her previous
child (born overseas). She continued to breastfeed the twins. There was
never any suggestion that she wouldn't breastfeed. The neonatologists
felt the benefit of the breast milk was vital for these babies plus the
woman could not afford to bottle feed. I actually think she did not even
think of bottle feeding as a way of feeding a baby.

I think you have to remember fluid in an abscess does not actually get
into the breast milk as an abscess is an enclosed event. I would check
to see if the culture was of expressed milk or a sample from the
abscess.  It is very difficult to culture anything from breast milk
because the constituents in the milk actually attack the bacteria once
it is expressed in m y experience. 

Just another point of view. Gwen

Gwen Moody
CNC Postnatal Care
Westmead Hospital
PO Box 533 Wentworthville 2145
Phone: 02 9845 6964
Fax: 02 9845 8340
Page: 02 9845 5555 - 01135


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