After stories about the fact that it is not necessary to vaccinate all breastfeeding women against covid, some began to be indignant in the sense that unfortunate babies would be deprived of the healing maternal antibodies.
I explain. With a vaccine, such a number will still not work.
The fact is that so-called class A secretory antibodies are secreted into breast milk. They can really protect your baby's mouth and gastrointestinal tract.
But in order for such antibodies to be in breast milk, a nursing woman must be ill with covid. That is why women who are sick with covid are not forbidden to feed their children.
Because, firstly, the virus is not transmitted with milk, and, secondly, secretory antibodies against the virus are transmitted. It is useful for a child.
And after vaccines are not transmitted?
Not. Not transmitted. The available anti-toxic vaccines stimulate the production of so-called class G antibodies. They are hardly excreted in milk. And if they were, they would simply be digested in the stomach of a child.
Are antibodies absorbed into the bloodstream of a child?
Not. Not absorbed. In human children, antibodies cannot be absorbed into the bloodstream from the intestines.
But, for example, calves are able to obtain antibodies of class G from colostrum. In them, these antibodies are actually absorbed into the bloodstream.
In general, in humans, antibodies are digested in the stomach and intestines in the same way as any other protein.
And this is even despite the fact that the secretory antibodies of class A, which are secreted into human milk, are very stable in the environment and withstand the action of all digestive enzymes.
There are so many antibodies in human milk that the children's stomach does not have time to digest them all. About 30% of the secretory antibodies from the mother's milk will be able to enter the baby's intestines, and about 5% can even be found in his poop.
Is everything clear with this topic?
