Dan Minette schreef:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Attn Dean, the meaning of my smiley is...
>
> >
> > Yesterday I had my first beer in ages and I felt as if I'd been heavily
> > drinking. No tolerance what soever. I need to work on that. Luckily, me
> > drinking, had no effect on Tom however. So he'll probably become a
> sociable
> > student later in life. :o)
> >
>
> Do you know what fraction of the alcohol gets into the breast milk? I'm not
> criticizing you for having a beer, I'd guess the amount of alcohol would be
> too low to pose much risk to Tom at all. But, I thought you might know,
> since you are breast feeding and drinking a bit. For example, would a mom
> who is a quart a day drinker of vodka while breast feeding cause any harm to
> her child at all? (I'm assuming she stopped during pregnancy and started up
> again after the baby was born for argument's sake.)
Since I only had one beer (OK it was a large one but still only one) and I am
only breastfeeding Tom for 1/3 of his dayly needs I assume it can't do much
harm.
But for arguments sake...
If you drink a whole bottle of beer while breast feeding.
0.33 liters containing 5% vol. alcohol. So you ingest 0.33/100x5=0.0165l of
alcohol. If everything is absorbed into the bloodstream you have a alcohol level
of app. 0.2 promille (assuming 8 liters of blood in your body). If all of that
gets into the milk for one feed then baby is having a beer. I doubt it.
Because if you consider that alcohol is an easy fuell for your body, it will get
burned first. Furthermore if you consider that between feedings there is app 3
hours and as a rule of thumb after app. 2 hours the alcohol of one beer is
totally consumed for energy production in your body. I guess you should be left
with about zero alcohol in the milk. But that is with a lot of ifs and maybe's.
Anybody else?
However being in a perpetual state of drunkenness will probably invalidate the
above, because of a near constant level of alcohol in the bloodstream. Since
most toxins end up in the fatty tissue of the female breast I assume alcohol
does also. So in that case I assume that probably baby will end up drinking more
alcohol then it's mother. But that is only a wild guess.
Thirsty subject.
Sonja
