Breast milk is very useful, but only if used as intended, to feed the baby. But the fantasy of some mothers knows no bounds, and they come up with more and more new ways to use breast milk.
Do not do that! Even if you find the theory interesting, in practice certain problems may arise.
Dripping into eyes from conjunctivitis
The favorite advice of all the grandmothers in the world. A drop of breast milk and eye lavage will help to cope with the scourge much better than harmful pharmacy products. Look how good! No, it's not good! If only because breast milk is an ideal breeding ground for bacteria. You are not going to raise and strengthen their health?
To drip from a runny nose
Well, you can’t drip milk into the eyes. Well, in the nose? This is an excellent cure for the common cold! Remember what everyone loved Dr. Komarovsky wrote? Only a mother who lost her common sense after sleepless nights or emotional stress could think of dropping a baby’s breast milk into her baby’s nose. Breast milk has neither medicinal nor disinfecting properties, so it is absolutely useless when dealing with a runny nose. Do not forget about it!
Use for cosmetic purposes
What could be better than do-it-yourself things? While needlewomen weave baskets of newspaper tubes and sew pillows from old shirts, nursing mothers come up with something abruptly: and let's make a hair or face mask from breast milk! Of course, there will be no harm from such cosmetic procedures, as well as benefits. Unless the placebo effect works. But this does not bother young mothers at all, and they continue to experiment by adding milk to various cosmetics, for example, soap. And then they also sell it. I wonder what percentage of nutrients is stored in this soap after cooking? But buyers, for some reason, do not care.
Feed someone else's child
First of all, it is dangerous: various diseases can be transmitted along with breast milk, including hepatitis, Staphylococcus aureus, cytomegalovirus or AIDS. In addition, drugs that were taken by a nursing mother can get into milk. Well, do not forget that breast milk changes its composition depending on the age of the baby. What a six-month-old baby eats is absolutely not suitable for a three-month-old baby.
Add to food and drink
See how wonderful pancakes came from breast milk! And porridge! What are the benefits and savings! Suddenly the milk ran out, and there is nothing to drink coffee with? It’s not scary, you can always add your own! We will not consider how much time it will take to pump one liter of breast milk and how much you can save on this. Interested in another: for what? The beneficial substances and vitamins found in breast milk are for the baby, not the adult. And after heat treatment, nothing good will remain in it at all. And by the way, dear mothers, do you at least warn your family about what kind of milk your pancakes are made of? And then suddenly they will not appreciate your ingenuity.
