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23.01.2022 This is absolutely why you need to question the motives and experience of anyone promoting themselves as a specialised tongue tie clinic. Please read the com...ments from the specialists in this news article and take them on board. There are some very prominent ENTs in the USA promoting tongue tie procedures and the evidence to support their claims is dubious at times. There is currently a subcommittee of the American Society of Pediatric Otolarngology looking in to tongue tie procedures in the USA- and I am on it, all the way from Australia. My contribution is knowing the science and being balanced in my approach. https://www.reuters.com//surgeries-to-help-newborns-nurse-

22.01.2022 https://croakey.org/breastfeeding-training-why-health-pro/

20.01.2022 Disgraceful marketing and abuse of public education

19.01.2022 Highly respected research group

18.01.2022 I've been asked to tackle some of the tongue-tie information that is out there. This is one of the most commonly brought up issues: Ankyloglossia (tongue-tie) i...s a midline defect caused by a mutation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene. No, on all counts. The lingual frenulum is created by the attachment of the oral fascia (which forms the floor of mouth) to the tongue. That fascia attaches to the undersurface of the tongue, usually right in the middle. As a result, the frenulum only exists when the tongue is elevated. The lingual frenulum is not a separate structure and is not a defect, being present in over 99% of the population. Tongue-tie occurs when this frenulum causes a functional problem. Since a tongue-tie occurs in the middle of the face, sort of, it has been described as a midline defect. The term midline defect with respect to the face is typically a cleft of the palate, lip and/ or nose. There is evidence that folate supplementation helps prevent clefts and MTHFR has to do with folate, so I can see how the dots were connected. However, that connection is not valid. There is no evidence that MTHFR or folate is involved with the formation of the floor of the mouth. In addition, having different alleles of the MTHFR gene is not a mutation which implies pathology, but is correctly termed a polymorphism. Genetic polymorphism is defined as the inheritance of a trait controlled by a single genetic locus with two alleles, in which the least common allele has a frequency of about 1% or greater. Ankyloglossia is not a midline defect, is not related to folate metabolism, and MTHFR is a polymorphism, not a mutation.

15.01.2022 Worth listening to.

14.01.2022 It is factually incorrect to say that human milk oligosaccharides are being added to infant formula. They are not. What is being added is a couple of synthetic ...oligosaccharides created by microbes. These are not nature identical. The mixes are 80% pure according to one source I read, which leaves me wondering what the 20% is and what its effects might be. [Du Pont claims it has achieved 98% purity. but even 2% might be significant for all we know at present.] It is time that scientists started using clear and correct terminology. Synthetic oligosaccharides may or may not be of benefit to formula-fed infants. Until the experiment has been conducted on thousands of children (and only if there is scrupulous independent monitoring of the experiment) we cannot know whether adding two ersatz versions of the 200 in breastmilk is useful, harmful, or just an expensive new additive of no value whatever. Except of course that it will justify a cost increase, while marketing claims will encourage parents to believe that the addition does bring the product closer' to breastmilk. When, for all we know, it may make formula even less like breastmilk than it was before. Lets start a global campaign to require industry to call its additives 'synthetic oligosaccharides or ' microbial oligosaccharides'. They are not from human milk, and they are not identical to those in human milk. See more

13.01.2022 In these unsettling times Heather is not making face to face home visits for breastfeeding issues but happy to do FaceTime or Whats App. Phone 0434091780

12.01.2022 Award-winning journalist & mama of two Liz Minchin was the other mother for her first daughter, and main mum for their second, facing different tricky feedi...ng issues along the way. Her frank and wide-ranging talk will be followed by an ask me anything session. Liz is currently the Executive Editor of The Conversation and in 2010 co-authored a book on big picture climate change solutions, called Screw Light Bulbs. See her on Day 1 of the Broken Sleep Conference. Book here > http://bit.ly/30CbfmR

11.01.2022 Hi all, here's this week's Clinical Question & LactFact! ======================================= LactFact: Teeth soaked in breastmilk do not lose calcium, where...as teeth soaked in infant formula do lose calcium. ======================================= What is the relationship between infant feeding and dental caries? According to the authors of this weeks CQW, 60-90% of school-aged children globally sustain dental decay. Early childhood caries (ECC) are defined as cavities in the primary teeth of children under the age of 6. Early childhood caries, according to the American Dental Association, have often be attributed inappropriate feeding practices, such as bottle feeding during the night, or toddler breastfeeding frequently throughout the night. The evidence on the association between type of infant feeding and ECC is mixed, and there is not a consistent association found. There are other factors that appear to play a role in ECC, including the mothers vitamin D status during pregnancy, and the presence of cariogenic bacteria, particular mutans streptococci, in the mouths of mother and infant. The authors of this study were interested in whether formula or breastmilk have a direct impact on dental enamel quality. They designed a study to compare the effects of breastmilk, plain infant formula, and infant formula with probiotics, by immersing the teeth in the fluids, and measuring any effect on enamel. They used 36 spanking clean and healthy primary teeth shed or extracted from children. Each tooth was first suspended in a bacterial broth containing strep mutans. Then 12 were immersed in breastmilk, 12 in plain infant formula, and 12 in probiotic-containing infant formula. They soaked the teeth for a week, then measured their enamel quality by measuring calcium and phosphorus % weight. Which statements do you believe are accurate regarding the findings of soaking healthy primary teeth in breastmilk vs infant formula? A. The teeth soaked in breastmilk had an increase in % phosphorus. B. The teeth soaked in breastmilk had an increase in % calcium. C. The teeth soaked in either type of formula didnt change their % calcium. D. The teeth soaked in the probiotic formula gained calcium whereas the plain formula did not. Therefore, the probiotics made a difference. E. The teeth soaked in either type of formula lost calcium. F. All 3 categories of teeth lost phosphorus, except the loss was insignificant for teeth soaked in breastmilk. Read the Answer Here:

11.01.2022 Heres a free gift to anyone interested in early infant feeding: the first scientific part of my three part book, Milk Matters: Infant Feeding and Immune Disord...er. I thought Marina Rea that this would be a nice present to give all those coming to the World Congress in Brazil, but am posting it ahead of time as its not an easy read in places... but contains a lot of useful information. Its online at Researchgate and Ill try to put it on my website as well. Let me know what you think! Might be useful for students as well, Amy Brown and others..... See more

06.01.2022 Did you know? Pass it on! Huge thanks to Confident Birth & Breastfeeding!!

04.01.2022 MTHFR Here is some background on the topic There is nothing linking this to tongue ties other than a website called Facebook https://www.genetics.edu.au/health-professio/mthfr-dna-test

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