Thai woman defies medical warning, vows to keep donating breastmilk

Think twice before accepting breast milk from others, a medical lecturer from a top university has warned.

"Breast milk is like blood or an organ. It can transmit germs and diseases, which is why it needs to be screened before donation. It is really strange that we [Thai people] eulogise a mother who pumps her own milk and gives it away to other mothers. This shows that society is not [medically] literate,” Professor Yong Poovorawan, paediatric hepatology professor at Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine, posted on his Facebook page. 

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