In regards to eating meat

[BrownEye]

When and where was this?

This was a couple years ago at the Omaha Childrens Hospital. They seem to be highly rated and promote breast feeding, although only if you add their fortifier.

Was he an Avuyvedic practitioner? Or..?

Really no idea. Sharing my story with a white woman at the bank in a white town in a white state (NE), she tells me that if I end up choosing a doc, to find one that is Indian. I asked if she meant the Hindu variety and she said yes, they are the best doctors. That really stood out to me in my particular surroundings.

Was there no other option at the time?

My wife wakes me up in the morning to tell me she thinks the water may have broke. I told her to call the doc. She heads to the hospital and when she got up out of the waiting room seat at the hospital it fully gave way. So I get the kids up and head down there and hear the news. In a town of less than 5000 people the hospital was not equipped for a 23 week old. I could tell the doctor was panicking. The decision was made right then, and while at home packing up the kids, I tell them that mom was in the helicopter that just went over the house, and head up to Omaha 220 miles away. While I really enjoyed the time with the kids, not having to work, I missed my wife.

It is a sad situation for all sides, but most Americans have this unreasonable expectation that refuses to accept the reality that some babies do not make it. So they need somebody to blame.

She would have been out of there a month earlier if they would have noted what we said. The fortifier incident added a couple weeks, then the too large a nipple added another two weeks. Both cases where they ignored us.



A CBS2/Beacon News investigation uncovered other cases in which powdered formula was blamed for causing brain damage or death in infants. There have been at least two Illinois cases, and cases in at least 17 other states.

“It’s not an isolated problem,” said Ed Manzke, one of the attorneys hired in Connor McGray’s case. “There have been deaths all across the country related to powder infant formulas. And what is so shocking about it, is hardly anyone knows it.”

A 2001 E-Sak outbreak in Tennessee led to a 2002 U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning to health professionals. In a letter the FDA wrote: “… FDA recommends that powdered infant formulas not be used in neonatal intensive care settings unless there is no alternative available.”

The FDA also said there are sterilized liquid fortifiers on the market that can be used as an alternative. The FDA would not put a complete ban on the powder and said it may be used in the NICU when no appropriate liquid product is available.

Five years after this FDA warning, Connor McGray was given the powdered formula, according to the Health Department document.
His family says he was getting stronger and doing well until he got the powder.

Similar to Connor, Daniel Korte was born prematurely last year. He, too, was fed powdered infant formula and was struck with the same infection and meningitis. His parents said the contaminated formula was fed to him at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

Daniel survived, but is living in a nursing facility on a ventilator.
“It basically turned his brain to mush,” said Michelle Korte, Daniel’s mother. “He is ventilated and his upper brain is destroyed.”
http://naturalbeginningsutah.com/wordpre...e-infants/

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A literature search shows that there are documented and studied outbreaks of cronobacter infections. (Van Acker J et al. "Outbreak of necrotizing enterocolitis associated with Enterobacter sakazakii in powdered milk formula." J Clin Microbiol 2001, 39:293-297, and Forsythe SJ: "Enterobacter sakazakii and other bacteria in powdered infant milk formula" Maternal Child Nutr 2005, 1:44-50). E-sak infections have been reported world wide, with three-quarters of the infected infants being diagnosed with meningitis.

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NEC is a serious condition that occurs most often in preterm and very immature neonates; it develops in about 5 per cent of all neonates in neonatal intensive care units. The exact cause of the condition is not known, but it is related to ischemia or poor perfusion of blood vessels in sections of the bowel. The ischemia is thought to occur when an earlier oxygen depletion in the heart and brain, as in anoxia or shock, causes blood to be shunted away from less vital organs such as the intestine.

Since the incidence of NEC is low in neonates who are breast-fed, it is likely that the necrotizing process is initiated by a response to the protein in cow's milk and the profuse multiplication of bacteria that thrive more readily in cow's milk than in breast milk. The gas-forming bacteria invade the damaged intestinal cells, causing them to rupture and producing pneumatosis intestinalis, that is, the presence of air in the submucosal or subserosal surfaces of the colon.

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NEC is what she developed, and it is talked about quite a bit across the web. I notice that most of the pissed off parents found a connection to cows milk. Many of the parents lost their child after the second round of fortifier attempts were made. She may have been another statistic if I did not raise hell.