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Chris Hafner-Eaton <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:50:18 -0800
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No problem with honey in the mom's food.  The problem with honey and babies
is that babies don't have high enough stomach acidity to kill the botulism
spores.  Healthy adults not on acid inhibitors/reducers should have no
problem.  By the time the spores reach mom's intestines, they are inactive
and certainly would not pass through to her milk.  She should, however, make
sure to wash her hands.  I've heard of a case where mom used honey in tea
and on biscuits and somehow the honey was transferred via her hands to the
breast and then baby's mouth.

Chris Hafner-Eaton, PhD, MPH, CHES, IBCLC    [log in to unmask]
mom, wife, educator, lactation consultant, researcher, scientist, author,
organic gardener, photographer, lapidary creator, lousy cleaner.

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