Children That Are Born Prematurely Struggle To Thrive On Synthetic Baby Formula

Lawsuits are being considered by the parents of children born prematurely and force-fed Enfamil and Similac baby formula

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - There is no more heartbreaking time in life than when a child is critically ill or when one passes away. Evidence is starting to mount that infants born prematurely and given the most popular brands of baby formula have an increased risk of developing a deadly intestinal disease. The parents of children with NEC or the parents of children who have died from the disease, have hired NEC formula lawyers to file lawsuits holding Abbott and Mead Johnson, the makers of the Enfamil and Similac accountable for failing to warn about the health problems synthetic formula could cause to newborn babies. Premature babies that are fed Enfamil or Similac brands of synthetically fortified nutrition develop necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) about 7% of the time according to studies. The cow's milk-based infant formula is recommended by doctors to replace human breast milk for feeding underweight, premature babies. According to pediatricians at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburg (CHP), "Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a gastrointestinal disease that involves infection and inflammation that causes damage and the death of cells in some or all of the intestine. Although it affects only one in 2,000 to 4,000 births, necrotizing enterocolitis is the most common gastrointestinal (GI) emergency in U.S. neonatal intensive care units".

Until recently, it was assumed that NEC caused babies to be born prematurely. Now, experts have acknowledged that toxic infant formulas are the most likely cause of NEC since most babies develop intestinal disorders after being fed formula from birth at around two to four weeks. Signs that a baby has developed the deadly infant formula disease are "abdominal distention (swelling), bloody stools, poor feeding, or feeding intolerance, bile-colored (green) vomiting or gastric drainage, signs of infection such as lethargy (sluggishness) and apnea (cessation of breathing), and temperature instability, writes CHP." Babies born prematurely may not have the digestive enzymes to properly assimilate synthetic infant formula and gut. "Some experts believe that necrotizing enterocolitis causes have to do with the makeup of infant formula, the rate of delivery of the formula, or the immaturity of the mucous membranes in the intestines." About 25% of premature babies with NEC require surgery to repair their perforated intestines.

Babies diagnosed with NEC are taken off of formula and fed nutrients through an intravenous catheter inserted into the stomach through the nose. According to CHP only sixty to eighty percent of premature babies respond well to treatment and go on to live normal lives. NEC formula lawyers are more concerned, however, with the unnecessary pain and suffering of the children that do not develop normally because their intestinal system has been permanently damaged. NEC formula lawyers are aware of the premie NEC risks that the parents and children are forced to go through by two companies that were more concerned with making billions of dollars in profits than in providing a warning label or taking the product off of the market."

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