Yasmina Kattou, edited by Alexandre Dalifard
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07:18, April 16, 2023
This week, vegetable milks, including for the little ones, have been recommended by the animal rights association PETA. However, feeding a baby these plant drinks can have serious consequences. Prolonged use may result in shock, coma, or even death.
This week, the animal defense association PETA made several tweets to advocate vegetable milks, including for the little ones. “Feeding an infant with milk from an animal other than a human is ALSO putting it in danger. Any drink other than human milk must be modified, mothered, to suit a baby’s needs. There are vegan infant milks”, is it written. However, feeding a baby with these vegetable drinks can have serious consequences.
A risk of coma or death
Drinks made from rice, soy or even oats are not suited to the nutritional needs of the little ones. Only breast milk or cow’s milk powder specifically developed for children is suitable for them. For babies fed with these plant-based drinks, there may be serious consequences, warns Aymeric Dopter, head of the Nutrition Risk Assessment Unit at ANSES.
“The longer the use will be prolonged, the more we will have allergic manifestations, electrolyte disorders, which will lead to metabolic disorders. And these will cause not only malnutrition and sometimes a state of shock, a coma and potentially a death”, he warns at the microphone of Europe 1.
In case of doubt of intolerance to cow’s milk, ANSES recommends that parents seek advice from their doctor before taking the initiative to change milk. A specific milk, adapted for the growth of children, will be prescribed if necessary.