Posted on 05/11/2022 8:51:59 PM PDT by blam
With 43% of baby formula out of stock across the country due to supply disruptions at the nation’s largest plant, images of empty shelves and desperate mothers have been flooding social media.
Photo: Fox News
But don’t try to take matters into your own hands, moms. According to the New York Times, pediatricians “strongly advise” against trying to make baby formula at home.
Some are rationing food or driving to stores hours away only to find empty shelves. Others are heading online to look up homemade baby formula recipes that use anything from powdered goat’s milk to raw cow’s milk.
But pediatricians warn that do-it-yourself baby formulas carry significant health risks. -NYT
“Homemade formula is dangerous for babies,” said Dr. Katie Lockwood, an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Primary Care. “Regular formula is F.D.A.-regulated and held to very high standards, the same way we treat medications. Making it at home is a lot riskier.“
Steven Abrams, spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics, said “The nutrients in homemade formulas are inadequate in terms of the critical components babies need, especially protein and minerals.”
Home brew baby formula can also contain “an excess of materials or nutrients, like salt, which a baby’s developing kidneys or liver may be unable to break down.”
What’s more, babies can suffer from “water intoxication,” – where the “baby might get too much water” if the balance of nutrients and liquids are off, according to Dr. Suzette Oyeku, chief of academic general pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, in New York City.
What’s their solution? Call your doctor! Go to a charity! Use cow milk in a pinch!
“The first call any parent or caregiver struggling to track down baby formula should make is to their child’s pediatrician. They may have formula samples on hand, or be able to help connect you with local charities or breast milk banks that can help.”
In a pinch, babies over six months — with no known allergies — can have pasteurized whole-milk cow’s milk for a brief period of time until parents are able to find formula. While not ideal in large part because it does not provide sufficient iron, it’s preferable to offering them homemade formula or diluting store-bought formula with water, Dr. Abrams said.
The Abbott Laboratories baby formula plant in Sturgis, Michigan was shuttered by the FDA nearly three months ago after receiving four reports of infants who were hospitalized with bacterial infections after consuming the formula from the facility – two of whom died.
The company reportedly failed to repair aging drying machines.
So, the origin of the baby formula pocalypse was Abbott management’s refusal to repair dilapidated and failure-prone drying machines turning the plant into proverbial petri dishes for cronobacter, because…
They needed that $5.73 billion for stock buybacks, obvs pic.twitter.com/GBmn3n4SWn
— moe tkacik (@moetkacik) May 11, 2022
According to NBC Boston, the FDA announced on Tuesday that it would allow ‘some’ products from the shuttered Abbott facility to be released on a “case-by-case” basis.
Now, the FDA is saying it will not object “to Abbott Nutrition releasing product to individuals needing urgent, life-sustaining supplies of certain specialty and metabolic formulas on a case-by-case basis.”
Abbott, meanwhile, says it will take at least two months before baby formula from the plant can return to store shelves.
“We understand the situation is urgent – getting Sturgis up and running will help alleviate this shortage,” the company said in a Wednesday statement.
“Subject to [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] approval, we could restart the site within two weeks,” the statement continues “We would begin production of EleCare, Alimentum and metabolic formulas first and then begin production of Similac and other formulas. From the time we restart the site, it will take six to eight weeks before product is available on shelves.”
One has to wonder…
Why hasn’t @JoeBiden used the Defense Production Act to order the production of baby formula?
Why haven’t our journalists, who insisted that Trump invoke the Act during the pandemic (necessary or not), demanded Biden do so?
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 12, 2022
And THAT is supposed to be reassuring?????????
Homemade formula is dangerous to the bottom line of formula manufacturers. It is not ideal but it certainly is not dangerous to babies if they are given the supplements that the homemade formula lacks. You know what is dangerous to babies? Not being fed!
For babies who haven’t the ability to process them
My child was allergic to my breast milk. Had to use a soy based formula. She did just fine
ITS HORSE DEWORMER
C’mon man! It ain’t like it’s horse paste.
I think the article is disinformation. I also read that the plant shutdown was voluntary by the company itself. You know, because selling tainted baby formula can get you into a hell of a lot of trouble like with lawsuits, consent decrees, criminal prosecution, loss of revenue, etc. I think the company is scared of that. It’s in the public interest as well as the company’s to find the cause. The cause doesn’t seem to be at the plant production areas, and it is in the company’s own interests to insure that. It’s not a case of greed driving negligence.
Humanity survived thousands of years without commercial formula and now must die because we don’t want folks to find out it’s a lot cheaper to do it on your own.
“HCQ will kill you”
“Ya’ll ain’t horses. Ivermectin paste is dangerous.”
I think we’ve heard just about enough from the ‘experts’ and msm.
I’m 56 and seen exactly one woman breastfeeding in my life. It was in a courthouse no less. My wife tried but “it hurt”. I told her to flick the boy in the head when it hurt but she said “I can’t do that”.
Naturally, 100 years ago 99.9% of mothers breastfed their babies. I don’t know when it went out of style but my guess would be that it happened with the feminist movement.
She did get a lot of grief from her family for taking that approach, especially her mother, which really surprised me. But I think the MIL saw it as a slap in the face as she gave her children (including my wife) formula during the 1960s when they were infants and always made the point that they turned out "perfectly fine."
So unusual was breastfeeding at the time that my wife joined the "La Leche League" which is a Breastfeeding support group. The meetings were rather small, not a lot of people signed up in our area.
I think my children benefited greatly with the breast milk. They grew up with no serious illnesses and are very healthy overall to this day.
Wonder how those of us born before manufactured baby formula survived.
Meantime, the clot shots are A-OK, right?
They want us enslaved, then dead.
Well, I agree with Mr Pollack but Joe could start by astopping robbing the formula from American citizens babies and sending palattes of formula to illegal border crossers and Ukraine.
What this proves is how much the RAT party and the filth in DC hate babies of Americans and want us dead.
None of them give a damn because the are all awaiting their kickback from that 40B to Ukraine.
These people that need formula can’t go back and breastfeed. They are dried up.
I keep hearing this. Yes, breastfeeding is the best way, It doesn’t fix the problem of those that have been bottle fed.
Dr Fauci probably sent out that memo. LOL
Lie.
No bacteria was found in the formula.
No bacteria was found in the production area of the plant.
moe tkacik is lying through he, she or it's teeth.
Imagine what will happen to breast milk after these covid fake vaxes poison it. That is if the unborn child doesn’t die after the mother is vaccinated.
My baby ate almost everything I ate, though it was mushed to liquid form. Also made milk from evaporated milk. She was as healthy as could be and strong as an ox. She’d damn near kill you over liquidized chicken when she was only a few months old. She’s not changed, btw. Don’t sit near her and a platter of fried chicken.
Now I have a neighbor with goats. I would sure get some of it and weaken it with water for a baby.
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