Honey, as bought in a store, is dangerous to feed to anyone under one year old. It's probably why they bottle it in teddybear shaped containers.
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Honey will help my infant better than vaccines!
Honey, as bought in a store, is dangerous to feed to anyone under one year old. It's probably why they bottle it in teddybear shaped containers.
okay... why though?
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Weird considering honey is sterile
Infant Botulism. Honey is TL;DR bee vomit. It has antibacterial properties but it is not an anti-bacterial. Rephrased, there are bacteria it can kill but it does not kill all bacteria.
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Honey *is not* sterile. Honey can kill some bacteria, but it is not itself sterile.
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Honey does have some amazing antibacterial properties. But "anti-bacterial" does not mean "all bacteria". Yes, honey does stop some bacteria but the bacteria that it stunts seems to be the bacteria humans were already building up resistance to.
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Honey isn't sterile. The high sugar content will kill off most microbial life basically via dehydration, but it won't touch bacterial spores like botulinum. Pasteurization won't kill them either, as the amount of heat and time it would take to kill spores would also ruin the honey.
While this isn't a problem for adults or even children, as your stomach acid will zap them, the same isn't true for infants, which don't yet produce strong enough stomach acid.
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no i didn't know, but i imagine that's something you would find out pretty fast when reading up on infant food or when talking to your doctor about moving your infant off non-baby-specific food.
I'm not sure what effects pure honey has on children, the problem is 'pure honey' is expensive. The cheap honey you buy in supermarkets, they process that with corn syrup.
Unless you want to be giving your kids early diabetes
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Just give your babies milk and baby food, not that complicated lol.
Would someone give a dog chocolate knowing it is pure poison to them because the chocolate was bone shaped? lol
Yes, I did.
Having severe allergic reactions to pure honey, I've read about it and found out in a roundabout way.
Eek, I can feel the effects just talking about it... *shiver*
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I would have assumed, but I assume a lot.
Honey is pure poison anyway, nobody should consume it.
- someone who is fructose-intolerant.
Honey is typically bottled in bear-shaped containers because other than bees (a bee-shaped container would probably turn people off the product, which manufacturers don't want to do), bears are the next thing most people associate with honey (Winney the Pooh helps with that).
Also, as mentioned in another reply, nearly all store-bought honey containers have the warning on the bottle itself. I knew, but didn't know why until a couple posts in this thread.
I remember someone once told me the same about feeding chocolate to dogs.
When honestly I would never think to feed chocolate to a dog or like this feed honey to an infant in the first place.
But hey at least I know.
Great post by the way.
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