Mom almost kills baby with diluted formula
A mother trying to make ends meet almost killed her infant when she diluted his baby formula with water.
“If I would have known it was harmful I would have never done it,” says 23 year-old mother, Jeri Moss. She couldn’t afford baby formula so she relied on the government to help feed her five month old son, La’Damian Barton.
However, the supply of formula always ran out before the end of the month. Moss says managers with the Women, Infants and Children program, which provided her with infant formula, told her she was getting the maximum amount. So Moss began to dilute La Damian’s formula with water.
Says Moss, “I was doing under 2 scoops more than I was supposted to be doing.”
The diluted mixture caused a condition called water intoxication. La’Damian had seizures and then stopped breathing. Moss started CPR and rushed her son to University Community Hospital. Doctors there say the child would have died in another hour. Damian spent 2 days on a ventilator in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
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1. nyscof
December 5, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
The water is even more damaging if it contains fluoride. All infant formula, concentrated or not, must not be mixed with fluoridated water, according to the American Dental Association, the Centers for Disease Control and the Academy of General Dentistry. This puts babies at high risk of developing dental fluorosis - yellow discolored teeth which is the body’s outward warning that too much fluoride was ingested. Unseen is the damage fluoride ingestion causes to bones, thyroid and kidney function. Also, over 20 studies link even low level fluoride ingestion to lowered IQ
http://www.FluorideAction.net/health
Since fluoride is neither a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth, it must be avoided. Instead these poor children are being way overloaded.
Fluoride should be removed from all water supplies immediately, If parents don’t know that they shouldn’t super-dilute infant formula, they certainly are unaware of the danger to their babies that fluoridated tap water delivers. Obviously, we can’t trust our health departments and legislators to properly inform people - because they already haven’t done so. Dental researchers have warned as early as 2000 that infant formula should not be mixed into infant formula.
Look at the back of a toothpaste tube. Fluoride is a poison.
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