Breast Milk Studied As Potential Coronavirus Treatment

Lactating mothers in some areas in the United States of America are signing up for a study that may lead to the discovery of a treatment for COVID-19, Forbes reports.

Breast milk has been gathered for study by Dr. Rebecca Powell, assistant professor of medicine at the Division of Infectious Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Below is what Dr. Rebecca Powell had to say about her research;

“The hypotheses is generally that there would be antibodies in the milk against COVID-19 because there is some proportion of antibodies in milk that comes from blood,”

“We hope that the antibody levels are high and have protective function. This is important for breastfed babies, obviously, Beyond that, if there are high levels of protective antibodies, those antibodies could be purified and used in treatments in severe cases of COVID-19.”

She cautions that she’s not talking about people buying breast milk off the Internet and drinking it. “I don’t recommend anyone to buy bodily fluids online and ingest them. Any bodily fluid can also carry other illnesses. I’m talking about purifying specific antibodies from the milk and using therapeutically.”