In the present paper I have examined the platelet count of ap-parently “healthy” lactating mothers with very different Arakawa's reaction on different sides of the breast. Such cases are rare, of course. And the cases I selected were those with the index over 8 (Cf. p. 85) -or with very different reaction on different sides of the breast.
All my own 30 cases were divided into 3 groups (Groups A, B and C) according to the intensity of Arakawa's reaction of the stronger side breast. In each group, the average count showed re-spectively an increase as compared with the average count of mothers with the reaction of the stronger side on both breasts.
The platelet count given by J. Kimura,
2)3) the reticulocyte count by Shiraishi
9-11), the milk chlorine content by Ishii,
12) the milk sul-phate content by Yoshino
13) and the milk sodium content by Kuro-sawa
15) in such cases-mothers with very different Arakawa's reac-tion on different sides-shwoed an increase or a high figure in each report. On the other hand the milk glyoxalase content by Orimo
17) in such cases showed a decrease (Cf. Table 12). An increase of the blood platelet count, reticulocyte count, milk chlorine content, milk sulphate content and milk sodium content, and at the same time a de-crease of the milk glyoxalase content respectively were, as they re-port, seen in lactating mothers with negative Arakawa's reaction. Thus, it is probable that such mothers are in a state of avitaminosis B, however strong may be the Arakawa reaction on one side of the breast.
It is to be added here that it is a question whether or not a lac-tating mother who secretes on one breast alone and whose Arakawa's reaction is normally positive is always healthy, especially if the reac-tion is tested only once.
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