Over the holidays I stopped into a local health food store to pick up my usual grapefruit seed extract capsules (GSE) and ask what else I could do/take to raise the pH of my body to help fight off yeast (yeast thrive in an acidic environment). I spoke with a young woman, maybe my age, maybe even a bit younger. When I showed her the bottle of GSE I was buying and told her I'd been taking it on and off with Fluconazole over the last year, she freaked! Literally freaked that I was breastfeeding and taking GSE. She told me it was awful for me to be doing that, that it transfers to the baby and harms not only my body's balance of yeast and probiotics, but also that of the baby's...(Boy, did I feel like an awful mom!)
BUT...I have been told to take GSE by my Lactation Consultant who referenced the recommendations made by Dr. Jack Newman from the International Breastfeeding Clinic in Toronto, Ontario. He is considered Canada's "guru" on breastfeeding do's and don't's! So, I will continue to trust the experts and not some young person who felt the need to verbally attack a horomone-ridden new mother!
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