Is Breastfeeding after Vaccination Safe? The FDA did not investigate passage of Vaccine mRNAs in breast milk

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

Many of us have moved on from this pandemic, but there are certain aspects of the pandemic that we cannot ignore. One aspect is the adverse effect of global vaccination, and how it has destroyed the lives of millions of people. The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr Anthony Fauci have advocated everyone should be vaccinated and yet couldn’t produce any scientific data showing vaccination for those with natural immunity would be beneficial.

While you would never know it from listening to public-health officials, not a single published study has demonstrated that patients with a prior infection benefit from Covid-19 vaccination. Mainstream media, or any of the doctors or scientists that are presented to us doesn’t readily acknowledge this. This is an indication of how deeply entangled pandemic politics is in science

“We really need to make patients aware that this is not going to be a walk in the park,” Dr. Sandra Fryhofer of the American Medical Association said during a virtual meeting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on November 23rd, 2020.

UCLA Geffen School of Medicine Doctor Joseph Lapado and Yale School of Public Health Doctor Harvey Risch warn there are legitimate and serious concerns about the side effects of the vaccine. They also worry vaccine politics could be preventing officials from telling Americans the truth about the risks.

“The large clustering of certain adverse events immediately after vaccination is concerning, and the silence around these potential signals of harm reflects the politics surrounding Covid-19 vaccines. Stigmatizing such concerns is bad for scientific integrity and could harm patients” 

One adverse effect that is now coming to surface is the fact that breastfeeding indeed affects infants, and the question is, to what extent?

On page 12 of the “5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021,” it was reported that out of 133 breastfeeding vaccinated mothers reported, there were 17 cases of adverse events in breastfed infants. Three of them were “serious”. These adverse events show that for some, breastfeeding while vaccinated is not “harmless passing of antibodies”. It created adverse events, including serious adverse events, in those breastfed infants.

Again, the media kept insisting that there were “No serious COVID-19 vaccine side effects,” and “No shedding,” which we now know is not entirely true.

On September 26, 2022, a research study titled “Detection of Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk,” was published sharing some information that would be useful for new mothers. In the report they share that the initial messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine clinical trials excluded several vulnerable groups, including young children and lactating individuals.

The US Food and Drug Administration deferred the decision to authorize COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for infants younger than six months until more data are available because of the potential priming of the children’s immune responses that may alter their immunity.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends offering the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to breastfeeding individuals, although the possible passage of vaccine mRNAs in breast milk resulting in infants’ exposure at younger than six months was not investigated.

Of 11 lactating individuals enrolled, trace amounts of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were detected in seven samples from five different participants at various times up to 45 hours post-vaccination.

The report goes on to say that the sporadic presence and trace quantities of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA detected in EBM suggest that breastfeeding after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination is safe, particularly beyond 48 hours after vaccination.  However, caution is warranted about breastfeeding children younger than six months in the first 48 hours after maternal vaccination until more safety studies are conducted.