Comments on: AIDS from Baby Gaga breastmilk ice cream?

By: Hannah Katsman

Hannah Katsman — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:48:05 +0000

Stephanie, I remember that article about Mongolia. http://drmomma.blogspot.com/2009/07/breastfeeding-in-land-of-genghis-khan.html

By: Hannah Katsman

Hannah Katsman — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:45:18 +0000

Emily, do you have a source for that? Everything I have read says that HIV survives freezing.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:15:57 +0000

It is interesting to me how people respond to the idea of human consumption of human milk. Perhaps the taboo is primarily a westernized notion. I believe there is no such taboo in many other countries, such as Mongolia, for instance. (I read an excellent article in Mothering magazine about breastfeeding and breast milk in Mongolia; it made me wish that our culture was more open and accepting.) However, I believe Americans, especially, are squeamish about much that is natural with the human condition. Ah, we are such a conflicted group! 🙂

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:08:38 +0000

This is an interesting article, but its careful approach to discussing HIV is somewhat dampened by the use of the phrase ‘AIDS transmission’ and the title ‘Could you get AIDS from the breastmilk in Baba Gaga ice cream?’

AIDS cannot be transmitted; nor can one ‘get’ AIDS. HIV is the transmissable virus that leads to AIDS, a syndrome. To mix them up adds to the confusion surrounding the virus and its transmission. The term ‘AIDS’ is also more emotive than ‘HIV’ as it is has stronger associations with ill-health. Whilst this may encourage people to read articles about it, using ‘AIDS’ inaccurately and/or unnecessarily increases people’s fear of HIV.

The statement about heat from cooking destroying the virus would also apply to freezing, in the case of ice cream.

By: Tafline Laylin

Tafline Laylin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:06:18 +0000

In reply to Karin Kloosterman. You never see a grown cow sucking on the teets of another grown cow...

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:49:38 +0000

I think there is probably a very good reason why adult consumption of human breast milk remains taboo. This article has convinced me. No breast milk ice-cream for me.

By: Hannah Katsman

Hannah Katsman — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:48:05 +0000

Varda, interesting. Apparently, breastfeeding is important in preventing shigella in developing countries. I got chickenpox when I sent a year in Israel so I sympathize–no hospital for me fortunately.

By: Varda

Varda — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:41:44 +0000

When I was 18 and new to Israel, I came down with dysentery (shigella) from the food served at my seminary. I was quite ill and spent over a week in the hospital. Two years later, now married and the mother of a little girl, my exclusively breast-fed daughter contracted shigella. The doctor said that the parasite would always remain dormant in my body and that my daughter had gotten ill through my breast milk! Imagine the guilt I suffered…

By: Bobby Fontaine

Bobby Fontaine — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:59:43 +0000

Charlie Sheen and EminEm need to check this out if they plan on keeping up with Lady Gaga, it is NOT a spoof,, Lady Gaga says she is going to run for president, read it with your tigers eyes wide open, the 2012 presidential election is going to be all about Hollywood

http://www.thespoof.com/news/magazine/inquiry_lady_gaga_replied_shes_going_to_run_for_president_8705.htm