Re: HIV, breastfeeding and mastitis

[Guest guest]

Hi - I don't have the answers to your questions, however wonder if you can find

them here: http://www.anotherlook.org/index.php . HIV and breastfeeding is a

topic that n Tompson (one of the founders of LLL) has poured her energies

into and that's the website of the organization which resulted.

Ellen

>

> Dear ladies

>

> In a country where then national health authorities have decided that health

services will primarily counsel and support mothers know to be HIV-infected to

breastfeed and receive antiretrovirals, if the mother develops mastitis, then is

it suggested that the mother does not breastfeed from that breast and just

express in the meantime? If this is the case, is this because the risk of

passing HIV on to the infant increases during a bout of mastitis because the HIV

load increases but also the intercellular spaces between lactocytes increase? Is

she able to provide the EBM to her baby once it has been heat treated? If so,

how exactly must it be heat treated?

>

> Many thanks

>

> Warm regards

> Kam

> Cert. IV Breastfeeding Education (counselling), B(Physio), sitting the IBCLC

exam this year

>

> Australian Breastfeeding Association Breastfeeding Information Manager

>

[Guest guest]

Is she able to provide the EBM to her baby once it has

been heat treated? If so, how exactly must it be heat treated?

This website talks about how to heat treat milk, HIV in

breastmilk killed by flash-heating, new study finds,

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/05/21_breastmilk.shtml

and there is a video to show how to do it.

This booklet also shows how to do it, How you can safely heat

treat breast milk ,

http://www.hciproject.org/sites/default/files/How%20you%20can%20safely%20heat%20treat%20breast%20milk_English_0.pdf

Best wishes,

SARAH

Hung

LLL Leader in Hong Kong

LC in Private Practice, www.lotuslactation.com

Founder of iLactation Online Breastfeeding Conferences,

www.ilactation.com