[EBH]

Children generally drink a lot of milk. There is about 100mg/L in whole milk. I wonder if this is why Covid is not affecting the children like it does adults?

[oldasrocks]

I’m allergic to mill. If I took this it would probably just make me fart more. That would help keep people away from me.

[Jewbacca]

This is a bit stronger. It’s the antacid

[OneVike]

I still drink milk with every meal I eat.

I’m 65, and seldom if ever get sick

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Maybe partially, because a lot of families now are not so dilligent with what their kids drink anymore (mine sure wasn’t), but they have fewer of the ACE2 receptor that the virus binds to.

[gleeaikin]

I had found a detailed Chinese study on lactoferrin in various stages of maternal lactation in various ethnicities and assorted regions. Then my Chromebook erased all my tabs and that page, and I only found this aummary.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30189612/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326341264_Lactoferrin_level_in_breast_milk_a_study_of_248_samples_from_eight_regions_in_China

It seems the earliest milk has the highest lactoferrin content and it lowers over time and stabilizes after the third month from birth. Now I will find some data on animal milk which is far lower in lactoferritin than human milk. I wonder if any studies have been done on the degree of illness in breast fed babies versus cows milk or factory formulas

https://viva.org.uk/health/a-comparison-between-human-milk-and-cows-milk/ While this study does not refer specifically to ferritin, there are some interesting comments under IRON. The chart comparing vitamin and mineral content of cow and human milk is also of interest.

Human milk is rich in lactoferrin, with a concentration around 1–2 mg/mL [7–9], whereas lactoferrin concentration in ruminant milk is 10–100 times lower than in human milk (in the range of 0.02–0.2 mg/mL) [10, 11].Mar 19, 2014
This was the best (only?) article I found comparing lactoferrin in humans, goats, and cows.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260149810_Characterization_of_goat_milk_lactoferrin_N-glycans_and_comparison_with_the_N-glycomes_of_human_and_bovine_milk

[Political Junkie Too]

Children generally drink a lot of milk. There is about 100mg/L in whole milk. I wonder if this is why Covid is not affecting the children like it does adults?

I thought the prevailing theory regarding children was that their immune systems, being young, "pre-activates" interferon in their lungs and bronchial tubes. This interferon alerts the body's immune system to the presence of the virus very early in the infection, unlike with adults where it takes about five days for the body to recognize that COVID is present. The early activation of interferon in children begins to dissipate as they get older.

One interesting finding was that cultures that regularly use hot/cold baths (like the Nordic, Scandanavian, Japanese) had the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths. Fevers are the body's response to viruses because the high body temperatures trigger the body's production of interferon. Studies have shown that hot baths (routinely sitting in a sauna or spa, followed by a period of cooldown, followed by more sauna/spa) cause the body to produce interferon.

See: MedCram Coronavirus Pandemic Update 46: Can Hot/Cold Therapy Boost Immunity? More on Hydroxychloroquine

See: Innate Immunity, Interferon, and COVID 19 in Children: Update 128

-PJ