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Breastfeeding: it's bad for business

theguardian.com

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There’s a special place in hell for anyone who was viciously opposing this at the UN.

In Australia its all over all formula products that breastfeeding is better.

> I'm told it's delicious

I can't be the only one who audibly laughed.

Our baby was born SGA (small for gestational age) at 2kg. We tried using similac formula as a supplement and baby got sick, she lost more weight and for diaorrhea. We instant moved back to just breast milk and she is doing amazing. Weight looking good.

Formula works for some babies. For some, it’s close to poison. I learnt it the hard way.

Necrotizing fasciitis

No, it is necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is associated with formula feeds and accounts for up to 20% of NICU costs annually. Here is a pubmed link discussing:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357630/

Wow, not a fan of that "article" format

Formula can and does kill many premature babies every day it is called Necrotizing fasciitis, look it up and learn!

Definition from the internet:

> Necrotizing fasciitis refers to a rapidly spreading infection, usually located in fascial planes of connective tissue that results in tissue death (necrosis).

Neither Wikipedia nor MedicineNet.com (to mention the top two results I got) mention any kind of link between Necrotizing fasciitis and formula. I suggest you give an actual link rather than just asking people to "look it up".

It’s actually necrotizing enterocolitis, and there is a link. Necrotizing fasciitis is something else entirely.

Thanks for giving the correct term.

(I think that you might not be talking about the same kind of link as the comment you replied to, though.)

It's interesting to see already more than one comment using the wrong term, possibly because they don't think about the meaning of fasci vs entero + coli?

Here is one paper from pub Med discussing NEC:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357630/

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