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Cancer and HIV:The End of the Breastfeeding Road?

Determining When Breast Isn't Best

By Shel Franco

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According to International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Ann Calandro, each case of cancer in the breastfeeding mom should be evaluated on an individual basis. In addition, Calandro cites the work of Dr. Thomas Hale, a leading expert in the use of medications in breastfeeding women, as being invaluable to the nursing mother facing cancer testing. "If she is undergoing tests for cancer, there are lists of radioisotopes on Dr. Tom Hale's Web site that give lengths of time that breastfeeding must be postponed for each particular diagnostic."

HIV, AIDS and Breastfeeding
"HIV is still contraindicated by the CDC for breastfeeding," Calandro says. In addition, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states that mothers in the United States who have HIV should not breastfeed their babies, although most research shows that the rate of infection from a mother to a breastfeeding infant is very low.

baby "Because AIDS is an incurable, invariably fatal disease, even a small risk [of transmission] is unacceptable in areas where the safe use of human milk substitutes is an option," Smith say.


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