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vanlassie

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12. I worked with a woman at WIC who was bitten on her face by a brown recluse.

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 09:32 PM

Jan 2023

Next to her nose. It would NOT heal. The doctor was getting worried, having tried several treatments. She went in to work as asked a coworker who happened to be nursing a baby if she would give her some pumped breastmilk. The breastmilk healed that wound. Her doctor was flabbergasted. Not we breastfeeding advocates, however.

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