Pediatricians told why goat milk is dangerous for children
Many mothers believe that goat milk is good for children's health and can even replace breast milk if it is not there. This is a misconception, consider pediatricians. Volgograd children's doctor, head of the regional center of medical prevention Svetlana Sarvanova said that use goat milk can be dangerous, and her opinion was fully agreed in the Union of Pediatricians of Russia.
Doctors said that until a child is 10 months old, goat milk, like cow's milk, is unacceptable for baby food.
Breast milk does not replace goat milk product and does not even closely match its composition. If the mother does not have milk, it is wiser to give the child adapted milk formulas.
Goat milk in infancy can have serious consequences for a child’s health. The enzyme system of the baby can not process the milk, be it at least cow, even goat. Such products are not absorbed, which leads to the development of pathologies of the kidneys, liver, pancreas, which is overloaded, develop severe forms of allergic reactions.
In goat's milk, folic acid is also absent, and therefore attempts to replace breast milk with it can lead to the development of severe anemia.
The myth about the benefits of goat milk appeared when the adapted mixtures of industrial production simply did not exist, and the mother had not so many feeding options in the absence of milk. We can say that it was a necessary measure. Today there is no need to give baby goat milk.
In the near future, pediatricians of Russia are planning to issue information sheets about the dangers of goat milk and distribute them in children's clinics and dairy kitchens. Gradually, experts believe, it will be possible to defeat the illiteracy of young mothers and representatives of the older generation, on the advice of which often the baby begins to give goat milk.
