Posted on 05/22/2017 10:01:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
A 7-month-old baby died after his parents fed him only gluten-free and lactose-free foods, including quinoa milk, the New York Post reported.
The child’s Belgian parents self-diagnosed him with an array of food allergies, but never sought a medical professional’s opinion before deciding on his diet, according to the newspaper.
“The parents determined their own diagnosis that their child was gluten intolerant and had a lactose allergy,” lawyers said in court during the trial for the child’s 2014 death, the Independent reported. “Not a single doctor had a dossier about Lucas and child protection services did not know about them.”
At the time of his death, baby Lucas weighed fewer than 10 pounds, which is only half the size of an average baby his age. An autopsy later found that his stomach was completely empty when he died, and his official cause of death was dehydration and malnutrition, according to the New York Post.
In court, the child’s parents said that they never took him to a doctor because they didn’t notice that anything was wrong with him. His mother said that sometimes Lucas would gain a little weight and then lose it, and that his parents thought such weight fluctuations were normal. They eventually took him to a homeopathic doctor, who insisted that they take him to a real hospital. By the time they did, it was too late. The hospital pronounced him dead on arrival.
In addition to quinoa milk, Lucas’ parents fed him oat milk, rice milk, buckwheat milk and semolina milk from the natural foods store they own, according to the Independent. While doctors warn that such a diet will not sustain an infant that age, the parents’ lawyer argued that wasn’t the case and that Lucas died for another reason.
“Lucas had an eating disorder. He got cramps when he was fed with a bottle, and his parents tried out alternatives,” the couple’s attorney, Karine Van Meirvenne, said, according to the Daily Mail.
The parents’ trial began this week. Each faces up to 18 months in prison for contributing to the infant’s death.
Beat me to it but worth re-saying VEGAN ASH HOLES”
I'm sure that's not vegan, and it's probably not trendy enough either.
If fat is poisonous, I must be a walking cesspool.................
Eraserhead..................
David Lynch’s Eraserhead, I think.
Y’all and me both.
She and her husband were "vegans", before it became the big thing that it is now.
After she had the baby, she continued giving lessons. So, I receive a call from her when the baby is about 8 months old. She started talking to me about how the baby sleeps all the time, and she really doesn't have the chance to interact with her. I asked if she was sitting up, or rolling over and starting to crawl a little. The child was doing none of that. I am pretty sure that they were not feeding her any normal formula. I wondered if she was breast feeding; but, considering the mother's own diet, I had to wonder if she was able to produce milk. So, perhaps a "soy" product?
My daughter graduated HS, and so I lost contact with this woman. But, I sometimes regret not being a little more forceful with her about going to a pediatrician and getting an evaluation from them about their child's "failure to thrive". I didn't, wish I had. I don't know what the condition of that child ended up being. You are right, Vegans are idiots.
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Insane!
Whole milk is the only baby food there is.
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>> “Are they being brainwashed in high school on this subject?” <<
Yes, definitely!
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Most homeopaths are not healers; they are pagan herbal witch doctors. Many even do “spells.”
Even the herbs they use are not the traditional healing herbs.
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I’ve only known three homeopaths in my life, and all of them were mentally ill to say the least.
They believe that we only need the “essence” of certain elements to be healthy.
It would take a ton of “essence” to keep me alive!
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“They believe that we only need the “essence” of certain elements to be healthy.”
I remember reading about one company that marketed millions of dollars of a certain ‘remedy’.
Based on their ‘dilution data’ it only took one goose liver to produce it all.
I can only imagine that poor baby having to injest stuff that tasted like crap.
Some people should have their parent card revoked.
With scissors.................rusty ones...............
I think this has little to do with Veganism. I think they starved the child to death. He would have been at least mostly healthy on a diet of baby foods consisting of various vegetables, beans and probably coconut milk.
Moreover, if he had allergies, he could have been brought to an allergist for testing. These people are probably crazy and deserve much, much harsher sentences.
I guess vegans can be crazy, too. (I’m not one, BTW)
Babies, newborns especially, NEED FATS, AMINO ACIDS and PROTEINS. Thai is why a mother’s FIRST milk is so full of them it’s yellow.
After 6 months, then you can start feeding solid foods...........
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