Someone who has active tuberculosis (туберкульоз) can breastfeed if they have received 2 weeks of appropriate anti-TB therapy. Infants can be fed expressed breastmilk during the 2-week period by someone else.1 The risk of TB transmission through breastmilk is negligible and, although the most commonly used anti-TB drugs are excreted into breastmilk in small amounts, there is no evidence that this induces drug resistance.2
As with most infectious diseases, by the time nursing parents present with symptoms, they have already exposed their infant to the збудник. Cessation of breastfeeding does not prevent exposure, and may instead decrease the infant’s protection that comes through specific maternal антитіла and other protective factors found in human milk. тому, common maternal bacterial, fungal, and viral infections in which the mother’s health is not compromised are not contraindications to breastfeeding.3
Please refer to a primary healthcare provider with more TB and грудне молоко-related questions, especially with regard to past donations or becoming a donor.
Read our introduction to infectious diseases тут.
Будь ласка, подивіться Як можна пастеризувати грудне молоко? for more information on heat-treating and патогени.
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- Healthy Children – Важкі захворювання та грудне вигодовування ↩︎
- ВООЗ. 2016. Керівництво для національних програм боротьби з туберкульозом щодо лікування туберкульозу у дітей ↩︎
- Canadian Paediatric Society. 2006. Updated 2016. Maternal Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Therapy or Immunizations: Very Few Contraindications to Breastfeeding ↩︎