Report: Anti-vaxers gain momentum in the US

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58. Antibodies in Breast milk

There is no vacc for Norovirus (stomach flu) and that is supposedly very contagious too. I had a very bad bout with that before I was married. In 1985 my husband, 5 year old, and 9 month old daughter all caught it. My baby didn't have it quite as bad but she was also still nursing. I was the only one in our house who didn't have it.

My baby's pediatrician said to stop nursing her and give her Pedialyte. She vomited the drink. He said she would dehydrate and have to be hospitalized if she did not keep down the Pedialyte.

Against his advice I let her nurse, and she did not vomit the breast milk. I called a different doctor recommend by LeLeche League. You are not sick? Nope. She is keeping down the breast milk? Yep. He then said to let her nurse as much as she wanted to and that she would not dehydrate if she was nursing. He also said it sounded like I probably had antibodies to this virus and would pass them on to her in my breast milk. Quack doctor? Only Pedialyte would work?

My daughter nursed round the clock for 24 hours. She recovered much faster than my husband and my older daughter. I never came down with that stomach flu at all. Why not?????

To get back to the measles topic. I got measles and chicken pox when under a year old in 1949. My Mom was born in 1920 and obviously had them herself, but did not breastfeed me. I did not receive the benefits of her breast milk antibodies. Only vaccs give you antibodies? Do they give infants vaccinations today? I don't think so. They wait until they are at least a year old.