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Letter: Letters : Milk of misery

Published 21 February 1998

From Jane Thomas

jane@toehead.demon.co.uk

Although artificially induced lactation may be used to reduce body toxins, it
would probably leave the person feeling pretty miserable
(Letters, 24 January, p 51).
I have a prolactinoma (a benign tumour of the pituitary gland) which, if
untreated, gives me higher than normal levels of prolactin. The amount of
lactation I suffered before treatment wouldn’t have filled a teaspoon, yet left
me feeling utterly wretched.

I imagine that the concert of hormones released during normal lactation
leaves the body in far better harmony than prolactin alone ever does.

Issue no. 2122 published 21 February 1998

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