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Barbara Berges <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:25 -0500
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Call and check with the Lactation Study Center at the University of
Rochester (Ruth Lawrence) at (585)275-0088.  They are a great source of
information for LC's and MD's.  Then post the answer to Lactnet so we will
all learn.

Barb Berges BS, RN, IBCLC
near Cleveland, Ohio

 Subject: Re: one more attempt.. (HPV)
>
> I just did a quick CDC search: they do NOT address the issue. My opinion:
> if it was an issue for a breastfeeding mother / baby, the CDC would have
> something on it.
>
> Book: Breastfeeding and Diseases by E. Stephen Buescher, MD and Susan W.
> Hatcher RN, BSN, IBCLC, Hale Publishing, 2008 - does NOT address the issue
> of HPV. Seek him out and contact him.
> Dr Hale's site covers medications; nothing on diseases.
>
> LaTrobe University's Dept of Microbiology doesn't even mention HPV that I
> could find on a quick search.
> <http://www.latrobe.edu.au/microbiology/milk.html>
> They have tables of known / reported contaminants and illnesses known to be
> via breastmilk, and very extensive tables of in vitro, and sometimes in
> vivo, protective factors in breastmilk. A computer page search did not hit
> on HPV.
>
> The silence is deafening on your query which indicates to me (my own
> opinion) that there aren't any reported cases of actual transmission of HPV
> to a baby via breastmilk, as opposed to the theoretical or logical
> possibility of transmission.
>
> We have so many good physicians on this list and none have responded on the
> list so far with any evidence, published or observational, of a problem for
> baby via it's mother's breastmilk.
>
> Phyllis
>
>
> --
> Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
> Glendale, AZ.
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