Talk:Witch's milk

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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. Tom e r ^talk 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]

Merge with Galactorrhea, not enough for second article, keep redirects. Gene Nygaard 23:07, 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? ;) —Nightst a llion (?) 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]