How to clean your breast pump
Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated guidelines on how to clean your breast pump, following a very sad case in Pennsylvania where a three-week-old preemie suffered meningitis and brain tissue damage from a bacterial infection contracted from expressed breast milk. A bacteria called Cronobacter sakazakii was later detected inside the mom?s breast pump parts and in the kitchen sink drain at home.
Before you freak out, know that this particular kind of bacteria is super rare (the CDC says they usually see only four to six cases a year) and this is the first time they?re heard of a baby picking up this particular kind of infection from a contaminated breast pump or bottle of expressed milk.
It?s also good to know that human breast milk normally has a lot of bacteria in it?it?s supposed to! Healthy, full-term newborns pick up good bacteria from their moms? breast milk and from skin-to-skin care all the time (it called ?colonizing?), and it doesn?t usually cause infections. (However, donor breast milk from a milk bank is always pasteurized.)
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