Read about a new study from researchers that found it was unlikely for new moms exposed to COVID-19 to pass the virus to their infant through breastfeeding.
, from 18 women across the country who had the novel coronavirus.
“Detection of viral RNA does not equate to infection. It has to grow and multiply in order to be infectious and we did not find that in any of our samples,” Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, co-principal investigator of the study, professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine, director of Mommy’s Milk Human Milk Research Biorepository and co-director of the UC San Diego Center for Better Beginnings, said in a.
“In the absence of data, some women infected with SARS-CoV-2 have chosen to just not breastfeed at all,” Grace Aldrovandi, MD, co-principal investigator of the study, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and a professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UC Los Angeles, also said in the release. “We hope our results and future studies will give women the reassurance needed for them to breastfeed.
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