Dangers of Infant Formula
For The Child:
When a mother feeds her baby infant formula, she increases the baby’s chance of having:
1) Asthma
2) Allergies
3) Ear infections
4) Respiratory infections
5) SIDS (Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome)
6) Diarrhea
7) Sleep apnea
8) Dental problems &
malocclusions
9) High blood pressure &
heart disease
10) Lower IQ
11) Obesity
12) Low hemoglobin
13) Diabetes (types 1 & 2)
14) Childhood cancers
15) Exposure to environmental contaminants
For the Mother:
When a mother doesn’t breastfeed, she increases her own chance of developing:
16) Diabetes (both gestational as well as type 2)
17) Overweight & obesity
18) Osteoporosis
19) Breast cancer, ovarian
cancer & uterine cancer
20) Hypertensive &
cardiovascular diseases
21) Reduced child spacing
One bottle of formula changes the pH & flora in a baby’s gut. If the mother switches back to reastfeeding again, it takes the gut 2-4 weeks to return to the conditions of the “breastfed gut”
Shocked?
So was I, when I first time thought about it.
What is the advantage to a lion cub when it feeds its mother’s (lioness’s) milk? Or to a calf if it drinks its own mother’s (cow’s) milk? Actually, there are no advantages of breast milk. If a baby is fed breastmilk or human milk & he/she is protected against wide variety of diseases (Pneumonia or diarrhoea), that is absolutely natural.
If a baby is breast fed, she/he gets
•perfect blend of nutrients with auto-digesting enzymes (to reduce load on immature intestines of baby)
•growth factors for the brain and
•passive immunity,
it is nature’s way of increasing chances of survival of a human infant.
Opting any other option in place of human milk automatically makes the baby vulnerable & that is a dangerous. If baby is fed formula (powdered animal milk) or cow’s milk, the baby gets diarrhoea, it is the disadvantage of the choice. The child is more prone to allergy, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure or his final IQ is lower than his/her actual potential, that is a disadvantage of any non human milk.
Does it really make difference whether one calls advantages of breast milk or disadvantages of nonhuman milk? Yes. With focus on advantages of breastmilk, the gravity of so many disadvantages with nonhuman or top(?) milk is diluted or nullified.
Please read following sentences carefully & think on your own, what impact does each one carry?
“If you choose XXX formula, it is fine. If you choose breast milk, you have less chances of getting pneumonia.”
“If you choose breast milk it is fine. If you choose XXX formula / cow’s milk, you have more chances of getting pneumonia.”
Which statement will keep you away from formula or cow’s milk?
We read about the advantages of breastmilk over cow’s milk, goat’s milk, formula and what not. Giving us a false sense of security that “There are some benefits with breast milk but if there is any problem, there are acceptable & safe options.”
If the mother has less milk, pain, inconvenience or she is away for job, she still can feed her baby her own milk. There are easy ways & solutions.
You got it right. Now onwards stay away from one that can harm. Enjoy breast feeding. It is your & your baby’s right. If you need help, we are always there.