{"id":7280,"date":"2020-06-02T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:55:31","slug":"safety-of-breastfeeding-in-mothers-with-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/safety-of-breastfeeding-in-mothers-with-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety of Breastfeeding in Mothers with SARS-CoV-2 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A small study (n=23) of postpartum women with confirmed or suspected COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">did not find<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">any\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">breast milk samples.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">resence\u00a0of IgM in breast milk\u00a0correlated\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">detection in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">maternal blood. IgG for SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was not found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">any\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">breast milk samples.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">O<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0infant<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that were tested one month after birth, all results were negative for SARS-CoV-2. These findings suggest that breast milk may not be a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">common\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">vector for SARS-CoV-2.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Luo et al. (June 1, 2020). Safety of Breastfeeding in Mothers with SARS-CoV-2 Infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint\u00a0downloaded\u00a0June\u00a02 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.30.20033407\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.30.20033407<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0A small study (n=23) of postpartum women with confirmed or suspected COVID-19\u00a0did not find\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 in\u00a0any\u00a0breast milk samples.\u00a0Presence\u00a0of IgM in breast milk\u00a0correlated\u00a0with\u00a0detection in\u00a0maternal blood. IgG for SARS-CoV-2\u00a0was not found\u00a0in\u00a0any\u00a0breast milk samples.\u00a0Of the\u00a08\u00a0infants\u00a0that were tested one month after birth, all results were negative for SARS-CoV-2. These findings suggest that breast milk may not be&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/safety-of-breastfeeding-in-mothers-with-sars-cov-2-infection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7281,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}