Immunity from breastfeeding: mother's vaccinations?

[Annie Mac]

Does anyone know whether or not a mother's passive immunity gained from previous innoculations pass on to the breastfeeding child? Have there been any studies on this?

[caned & able]

As I understand immunity in breastfeeding to work, the baby's saliva will stimulate the mother's immune system to provide the immunities the baby needs. I do know that many times it is observable to see that the well-nurished breastfeeding mother and child are often the healthiest members of a household.

I recall that my DD had chicken pox when my newborn son was two months old. She had a roaring case of chicken pox, but my son did not get them until he went to school at the age of eight years old in second grade.

My son breastfed, "told" my body that chicken pox was in his system, and my body produced the chicken pox antibodies to keep him from getting this disease so soon. I had chicken pox as an eight year old also. I had the immunities to give him.

As for vaccines and its temporary immunity being passed to a baby through breast milk, who knows. I do not believe that drug companies really care about that. I do know that studies have been done to show that strontium 90, lead, and other heavy metals are passed through breastmilk to babies. This was a popular mantra in the 1950's to discourage young mothers from breastfeeding and making formula appear healthier and less contaminated.

Ask your grandmother if she recalls this.

[VeezieTG]

i was told by someone who sited a study that i never bothered to look up and now don't remember that our previous vaccinations will keep out children immune for no less than 9 months and no more than 2 years. i seem to recall us talking about the w.h.o. recommendation for 2 years of breastfeeding and she sited this study as the possible reasoning behind that??? i don't remember.

whenever anyone ASKS me i just say, "i was vax'd and i breastfeed, so they get that in their systems." to shut people up. but i don't know the validity of it...

only seems logical tho that if you are protected from a disease, by any means, then its at least somewhat passing protection onto your baby, right?

[caned & able]

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[VK1987]

From what I learned in biology, a mother gives her baby 'natural passive' immunity through the placenta during pregnancy and through breastfeeding after. This is temporary and lasts as long as she's breastfeeding.
I believe (pretty sure, but I'm not a biologist) that the mother is only able to share her natural immunity. Natural immunity being built from being exposed to prior illnesses, and what she received from her own mother. So, for example, when the pp had developed an immunity from chickenpox, she passed the immunity to her baby by bf. But he did get chickenpox later on, because that immunity only lasted as long as she bf. Now her son has 'natural active' immunity to chickenpox, because he had it.
As far as vaccines, which are 'artificial active' immunity, I'm pretty sure this isn't passed from mother to baby.

[serenbat]

you might want to look into the connections with genes - http://www.mombu.com/medicine/medici...s-1532510.html

also in Ayurvedic it is thought of as Yuktikruta "Acquired immunity"