Support Growing In The Medical Community To Ban Cow's Milk Infant Formula

There is no need for Enfamil or Similac except as an emergency feeding measure if a hospital has developed a breastmilk bank

Monday, January 24, 2022 - Feeding a premature baby cow's milk, chemically synthesized infant formula instead of a mother's natural breastmilk is a horrible idea and may increase the risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a flesh-eating disease of the intestines. Baby formula increase the risk of NEC. NEC often requires surgery to repair the hole in the intestines and can cause death. Enfamil and Similac infant formula marketed to doctors and nurses that specialized in caring for prematurely born infants is made from cow's milk and is full of unnatural, synthesized chemicals that a newborn baby, or any baby for that matter, has difficulty digesting. Most infant formula fed to premature babies is either vomited up by them or passes immediately through the child as diarrhea, leaving him or her completely malnourished.

Monday.com published an article the other day written by an attorney that has seen these NEC baby formula children and spoken to their parents. The article explains the high incidences of unnecessary death among premature babies that are fed Enfamil and Similac. Developing NEC "will lead to surgery in 20 to 40 percent of cases and is fatal in 25 to 50 percent of cases." Also, most reputable health organizations agree that feeding a premature baby Enfamil or Similac will increase the baby's chances of developing NEC and dying prematurely. What is more important is that feeding a baby Enfamil or Similac infant formula displaces a doctor feeding the baby stored breastmilk filled with natural biotics and enzymes that help the premie fight infection. There is almost no situation where a mother's breastmilk can not be pumped, stored, and fed to premature babies. Mother's breastmilk could be banked when it exceeded the needs of one child and used by others if the hospitals chose to do so. Doctors at the prestigious John's Hopkins Children's Center are on record as saying, "Extremely premature babies fed human donor milk are less likely to develop the dangerous intestinal condition necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) than babies fed a standard premature infant formula derived from cow's milk." The researchers at Johns Hopkins point out that there is justification in banning cow's milk infant formulas once a pasteurized mother's milk bank is established. They point out that there are far fewer cases of NEC if breastmilk is used to feed a premie and almost never results in the infant's death. "Only one of the 29 infants who received human milk developed NEC and it recovered without surgery, compared with five out of the 24 babies on formula, four of whom required surgery." When a premature baby develops NEC, the intestinal wall becomes ulcerated and is treated with antibiotics. If the NEC has spread treatment may include dangerous invasive surgery to remove a portion of the child's digestive system where the ulcer occurred. Bacteria entering the intestines through one of these ulcers can be the cause of NEC and the advancement of necrosis could put the child's life in jeopardy.

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