Health Considerations

• Introduction Health Considerations
• Air pollution
• Alcohol consumption
• Anesthesia and Analgesia
• Bacteria
• Birth control
• Blood products (update coming soon)
• Caffeine
• Cancer
• Diagnostic scans (x-rays, mammograms, MRI, and CT/CAT)
• Direct contact between donor and recipient families
• Donor testing
• Drugs, medications, alcohol, and post-consumption discarding of breastmilk
• Exposure to needles
• Herbs, vitamins, and other supplements
• Hormone replacement
• Hospitalization
• Infections
  • Introduction to infectious diseases
  • Brucellosis
  • Candida Albicans (thrush/yeast infection)
  • Chickenpox (Varicella)/Shingles
  • Cholera
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) (update coming soon)
  • Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
  • Hepatitis A (HAV), B (HBV), and C (HCV)
  • Herpes Simplex (HSV)
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
    • With regards to breastfeeding
    • HIV and the global context of infant feeding
  • Human T-lymphotropic virus Type I and II (HTLV-1, HTLV-2)
  • Influenza
  • Lyme disease
  • Mastitis
  • Monkey Pox
  • Rubella
  • SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19)
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • Syphilis
  • West Nile Virus (WNV)
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
• Marijuana
• Medication
  • General information on medication
  • Antidepressants (coming soon)
  • Immunomodulatory drugs (coming soon)
  • Immunosuppressant drugs (coming soon)
  • Insulin
  • Thyroid medication
• Nutrition
• Open sores, blisters, bleeding cracks on the skin
• Organ transplant (coming soon)
• Pasteurization
  • Home pasteurization
  • Holder method explanation
  • Flash-heating explanation
  • Flash-heating versus Flash-pasteurizing
  • Pretoria method
• Pregnancy
• Silicone breast implants
• Storage temperatures:
  • Low
  • High
• Substance abuse
• Tear gas and pepper spray
• Tobacco
• Travel:
  • By air
  • To Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger, or Nigeria
  • To various countries with regards to Kreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) (update coming soon)
• Vaccines