The pediatrician should be directed to Ruth Lawrence MD's book, BF: A Guide for the Medical Profession. This need for simultaneous treatment is documented there. Since yeast is communicable, it stands to reason that this is a communicable disease....it is contracted by babies through the birth canal, etc. There should be no need for a study on this one. It is communicable disease, 101. I sense that there is an underlying *real* issue here of "Heh, if *I* didn't think of it, it can't be a good idea." It is a power struggle, not a real issue about yeast. Kathleen Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet, Indep. Consultant Williston, Vermont, USA mailto:[log in to unmask] http://homepages.together.net/~kbruce/kbblact.html http://homepages.together.net/~kbruce/kbblrv.html LACTNET Archives http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lactnet.html *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html