Talk:Witch's milk

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 2603:7081:1603:A300:BC83:BC4:8C21:63F1 in topic Article title is weird

Vote to move edit

I'm voting to move this to neonatal milk and instead have Witch's milk redirect there. I believe the scientific term should take precidence. Objections? Please vote. Tyciol 19:56, 1 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

I have no objection, although the word is "precedence" ;-) When/if it gets moved, switch the order of the names in the article lead. Tomertalk 05:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Conditionally Oppose until evidence is of "neo-natal" being correct is provided. The external link to the JAMA article uses the term "Witch's Milk" (albeit in scare quotes) and the other linked article uses other terms. AjaxSmack 08:14, 3 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

I was not aware of the term/condition Galactorrhea, I think it's a great idea to merge this into it, and redirect all different names to it. That helps bypass the controversy of what to name it entirely. Tyciol 01:29, 5 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Well, you don't really need an admin to merge, do you? ;) —Nightstallion (?) 20:44, 6 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

it's not true that this only occurs with full-term babies, my son was born five weeks early and had this condition

Merged edit

Since there hasn't been any discussion on this since 2006, and especially no votes against merging, I have gone ahead and merged this article into Galactorrhea. I called the sub-section "Neonatal Milk", rather than "Witch's Milk" - the only opposition to this was a lack of evidence that "neonatal milk" was the correct term, but I've found this article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538139/ titled "Milk protein concentrations in neonatal milk (witch's milk)." which seems to suggest that the term is correct. Dracunculus (talk) 02:51, 23 January 2010 (UTC)Reply


Fake! edit

I am sorry to say it but this babymilk-thing must be fake! Can anyone provide any scientific evidence for this phenomenon actually existing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.167.154.135 (talk) 16:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yes. Witches' milk#References *rolls eyes* ~九尾の氷狐~ (「Sumimasen!」 「Dochira samaka?」) 12:09, 8 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Undoing merge with galactorrhea edit

Witch's milk is not a disease or anything that should prompt concerns hence I think it is a bad idea to have it as a subsection of a condition that is frequently indicative of serious conditions. Richiez (talk) 13:24, 3 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Article title is weird edit

Shouldn't the title be "Neonatal Milk?" Folksy terms like "witch's milk" are typically mentioned as an aside so as not to overly validate them. In this case it’s a huge focus od the article for some reason I am possibly not aware of.

Don't get me wrong, I love the term, but it is quite bizarre. 2603:7081:1603:A300:BC83:BC4:8C21:63F1 (talk) 13:14, 2 February 2023 (UTC)Reply