BITTER SWEET TRUTH
HONEY....
has a long medical history.
But did you know that paediatricians strongly caution against feeding it to children
under one year old?
"It has been shown very clearly that honey can give infants botulism, a paralytic disorder in which the infant must be given anti-toxins and often be placed on a respirator in an intensive care unit", says Jatinder Bhatia, MD, a Georgia Neonatologist.
Why?
Because infants do not have a developed immune system to defend against infection, so the spores of the botulism bacteria that are found in dust and soil that may make their way into honey are potentially lethal for a child...
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