BREAST MILK FOR SALE

British experts, on Thursday in London, warned that the
growing online craze of buying and drinking human breast
milk, among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic
disease sufferers, poses serious health implications. The human
breast milk was being traded via websites in a lucrative market
for adult buyers.



A Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, said there was little
evidence to support claims, that the milk has any kind of super
food that can boost health, fitness and ward off disease.
Experts said the claims that it assisted with erectile dysfunction
and cancer, have no clinical basis.

They warned that such raw and unpasteurised human breast
milk can expose consumers to many serious infectious diseases,
including hepatitis, HIV and syphilis. Sarah Steele, a Specialist
at the Global Health and Policy Unit, Queen Mary University of
London, said it was also potentially very hazardous, if used to
replace a healthy balanced diet.

She said nutritionally, there was less protein in human breast
milk than other milks like cow’s milk. “Potential buyers should
be made aware that no scientific study evidences that direct
adult consumption of human milk for medicinal properties
offers anything more than a placebo effect.

“Failure of women to sanitise properly when producing milk,
failure to sterilize equipment properly, and improper or
prolonged storage and transportation of milk can also expose
consumers to bacterial food-borne illnesses. “While many online
mums claim they have been tested for viruses during
pregnancy, many do not realise that such screening needs to be
undertaken regularly,” she said.

Steele warned that sexual and other activities may expose the
women to viruses that they may unwittingly pass on to
consumers.

Culled from Vanguardngr.com