Skim milk can be easily made to feed a baby with a chylothorax. The milk can be centrifuged with a lab quality centrifuge and fortified with evening primrose oil. Has worked to heal 2 children with chylothoraxes after surgery in Yale New Haven, CT hospital. Actual spinning was done in the child's home and brought to the hospital by the parents. Breastmilk has a specific gravity and depending on the specific centrifuge, the milk gets spun at a specified RPMs for a specific time. (This information was supplied by the instructions from the centrifuge, plus the specific gravity of breastmilk being 1.01) Once that process is completed, the fat/skim milk components are separated into containers and divided to be used. Using this method, you can obtain a .02% (2gms/100cc)fat, as compared to Portagen which is 14% longchain fatty acids, and whole milk which in this case was ~40%. The process was also done in reverse after the chylothorax was healed. One of the children had trouble gaining weight after the chylothorax was healed. He was then given the cream portion of the milk (60cc of this "butterfat" is equivilant to 250 calories.) in addition to the whole milk, and gained weight very well. These results were verified by an independent labratory, Northeast Labs of Ct. *********************************************** 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