Hi Pat. Do a search for chylothorax for posts made this year. Also, email
Trish Whitehouse, who has extensive info on this. [log in to unmask]
   Kathleen

At 02:24 PM 3/18/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I have a family with a 5 month old Down's Syndrome infant who is recovering
>from heart surgery.  In the process of doing the surgery, a nick was made in
>the infant's lymphatic system which evolved into leakage of milk into the
>system.  At this point the infant was put on Portagen, a specialized infant
>formula with different sorts of fats, ie, no long chain fats.
>Mom is pumping up a storm and hoping to get infant back to breast soon. But
>there have been discussions here about skimming fat and feeding the fattier
>milk to infants, and I wondered if there was any way to skim the fat and
>then feed the infant the skimmed breastmilk.  Mom would really like to get
>this infant back on breastmilk as much as possible.
>So if anyone knows any references about this, I can send them with the
>mother to the doctor next Tuesday.
>Thanks,
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>Pat Thomas PHN IBCLC
>Winona County Community Health
>Winona, MN
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