Breast milk contains white blood cells

Rufus T. Firefly

I just learned (from a post on a Facebook JW recovery forum) that breast milk contains white blood cells [see link below for confirmation]. So, when nursing, an infant ingests its mother's white blood cells for nourishment. Furthermore, I have known JW mothers who would nurse the infant of another mother when that mother was temporarily indisposed. This really shakes up current Watchtower policy, doesn't it?

http://www.borntolove.com/whiteblood.html

EndofMysteries

Better write to Bethel to inform the GB about that so they announce at the annual meeting this year that, "Evidently breast milk contains white blood cells. So from here onwards anybody who drinks milk will be a willful opposer of God and is to be disfellowshipped. PS. Since cows has breasts then we can only assume cow milk has white blood cells so milk, cheese, ice cream, and all dairy products are to be avoided at all costs or you will be disfellowshipped!, Your loving brothers, the self appointed GB"

Splash

Let's follow the logic...

1. JW's cannot accept white blood cells:

-- km 11/06 p. 3 How Do I View Blood Fractions and Medical Procedures Involving My Own Blood?
Jehovah’s Witnesses do not accept transfusions of whole blood or the four primary components of blood—namely, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma.

2. White Blood cells are also called leukocytes:

-- g 8/06 p. 9 Transfusion Medicine—Is Its Future Secure?
WHITE BLOOD CELLS (leukocytes) constitute less than 1 percent of whole blood. These attack and destroy potentially harmful foreign matter.

3. Colostrum (first breast milk) contains Leukocytes (white blood cells)

-- Acta Paediatrica Volume 68, Issue 4, pages 389–396, July 1979
Abstract: Colostrum and breast milk samples were obtained from 74 women, 18 of whom gave sequential samples. The mean total leukocyte count in colostrum was 3190 cells/mm 3 ... It was estimated that the total number of leukocytes available to the neonate remained approximately constant during the first 2 weeks of lactation and fell thereafter.

4. Colostrum (first breast milk) is good for the baby to consume:

-- g93 9/22 p. 14 The Case for Mother’s Milk
The first breast milk, a thick yellowish substance called colostrum, is good for babies and helps protect them from infections.

-- g83 6/8 p. 20 Breast Feeding—A Mother’s Loving “Sacrifice”
As the book Nursing Your Baby says, the colostrum “plays a particularly vital role in protecting the infant against disease. Colostrum contains disease antibodies, and particularly viral disease antibodies

-- g81 7/22 p. 22 Why Breast-Feeding Is Best Feeding
This yellowish fluid is rich in antibodies and proteins that provide an immunity lasting several months against certain bacteria.

This all means that it is good for babies to eat white blood cells from their mother's milk, but... (Go back to point 1.)

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sir82

This information has been sent to them in hundreds if not thousands of letters. They know it and they just don't care.

Daniel1555

Yes exactly.

I asked to a prominent HLC elder why white blood cells are forbidden, when there are more white blood cells in mothers milk than in the same amount of blood.

His answer. "I can't answer that."

I wrote the same question among others to the branch office 2 years ago. Still waiting for an answer.

sowhatnow

L. O. L !! so they are still observing the law of moses? and what about all the old levitical laws?

here I THOUGHT that was done with?

shadow

cow's milk too

http://dairycarrie.com/2013/03/05/is-there-pus-in-milk/

So let’s look at some basic science here. What is a “pus cell”? Pus is made up of dead white blood cells, bacteria and dead skin cells. Gross right? That’s what the anti milk people want you to think about when they spout their bologna. So, there really isn’t a single “pus cell” like this charming infographic would like you to believe, instead pus is a combination of things. A white blood cell is a normal part of blood. White blood cells are not pus. There are white blood cells in milk, In the dairy industry we closely monitor what we call the somatic cell count (SCC) of our cows and our milk. Somatic cell count (SCC) is a measurement of how many white blood cells are present in the milk. White blood cells are the infection fighters in our body and so an elevated white blood cell presence or on a dairy farm an elevated SCC is a signal that there may be an infection that the cow is fighting.

Dairy farmers are paid more money for milk that has a low SCC, if our cell count raises above normal levels they will dock the amount we get paid for our milk, if it raises even higher they stop taking our milk and we can’t sell it. So not only do we not want our cows to be sick, it would cost us a lot of money and could cost us our farms if we were to ignore a high SCC. Recently the dairy industry lowered the acceptable SCC level from 750 to 400. Most dairy farms aim for a SCC under 200. So does this mean that we are allowing some pus into your milk? No. All milk is going to have some white blood cells in it, that’s the nature of a product that comes from an animal, cells happen. It does’t matter if it’s organic milk or regular milk. The presence of some white blood cells in milk certainly doesn’t mean that the animal is sick or the milk is of poor quality. Again, white blood cells are normal. Additionally when you buy milk from the store it has been pasteurized which kills off any white blood cells or bacteria that are present in the raw milk.

So the anti milk folks want to you to be grossed out by milk, but think about this… A steak has white blood cells in it, because it has blood and white blood cells are a part of that. The anti milk people aren’t going around saying that your steak has pus in it because we can see with our own eyes that it doesn’t. However, since we can’t see into our milk like we can see a steak, anti milk activists use bad science to scare you into believing their view point and that’s just not right!

rosyray

Splash your logic = awesome!

Thanks for the wt references nothing like using their own literature against them!!!

Breast milk contains white blood cells

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