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This is in the archives many times.

1. Interferon is too big to get into the breastmilk.
2. If interferon, by chance, got into the milk, it would be destroyed in the
baby's stomach.
3. If interferon, by chance, got through the baby's stomach into the
intestines, it would not be absorbed.
4. Interferon is made by macrophages in the mother's milk to help protect
the baby.

Interferon does not require a mother to stop breastfeeding.  No matter what
the company that makes it says.

AND: The decision is the mother's not the neurologist's.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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