Mothers and would-be moms who haven't been vaccinated against COVID would be glad to know they didn't get vaccinated after a new study found something very interesting-even concerning.
A study has found that lactating mothers who were vaccinated against COVID can pass small amounts of the mRNA vaccine onto their lactating babies when breastfeeding. This is after the study, published in the JAMA Network Open, found trace amounts of the vaccines in breast milk.
The study, titled "Detection of Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk," studied a small group of lactating women who were vaccinated against COVID.
The researchers behind it, all from the New York University Long Island School of Medicine, noted how previous research did not include breastfeeding mothers, and so they focused on the said excluded group.
The group, comprised of five moms who received a Moderna COVID vaccine and six moms who received the Pfizer COVID vaccine, provided researchers with breast milk samples for five days post-vaccination.
Per the study, trace amounts of the COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine were detected in seven of the samples which belonged to five of the women in the group. This indicates that 45% of all participants had their breast milk tainted by the said vaccine, The National Pulse noted.
The report revealed that of the five women whose seven samples had trace amounts of the messenger RNA vaccine, two had been administered the Moderna vaccine while the remaining three were given the Pfizer vaccine.
Proof Of Possible Transmission
This latest study, published only this Sept. 26, 2022, comes as evidence that the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for lactating women receiving the COVID vaccine should be stopped.
Previously, the CDC did not recommend giving the COVID vaccine to infants six months old and younger because the potential effects of the vaccine on their immune systems haven't been studied yet. It did, however, recommend that pregnant and lactating mothers should be given the COVID vaccine.
The researchers indicated that the study looked into the possibility that the COVID mRNA vaccine could be present in a lactating mother's breast milk within six months of vaccination. Its findings, then, show that infants six months and younger could receive the COVID vaccine through their mothers' expressed breast milk.
The study's findings also provide strong supporting evidence of the British government's directive banning lactating women from receiving the COVID vaccine. The U.K. government expressly said that "sufficient reassurance of safe use" is not present at the time the recommendation was released.
