Someone asked last week sometime about MRSA and breastmilk.  It's been hectic at
work and I haven't been as active as usual so didn't respond at the time.
Happily we have had little experience with this bacterium in Norway in the past
but that seems to be changing.  This year I have learned of a documented case
of a mother whose breastmilk cultured positive for MRSA, and since there was
donor milk available for her vulnerable baby who was in the NICU, her milk was
not used before she was treated and re-tested.  The pediatrician emphasized
that had he not had the option of donor milk, he would have chosen her milk
over formula.  The baby was shown to be colonized with the bacterium but did
not have any signs of illness from it; mother's MRSA-caused infection was
nowhere near her breasts.  I can't give more details than that on LN.
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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