Rotersept - anyone heard of it/know where you can get it?

[1stMrsF]

My mother reccommended this, a nipple spray she used when breastfeeding me and siblings - now over 25 years ago. I tried googling and found it mentioned but only on medical/drugs websites, nothing retail. Has anyone come across it or know where it can be purchased, if it is still available?

Thank you!

I don't think this will still be available, and if I recall correctly, it was withdrawn in the UK some years ago because clorhexedine, the active ingredient, was not considered safe for babies to ingest.

Thanks for that tiktok, I thought that might be the case when I couldn't find it online.

Being an antibiotic spray, Rotersept as a sterilising medium was counter-intuitive. The newborn baby harvests commensal bacteria to transfer to its developing gut both from the skin surrounding the nursing mother's nipple and from her milk which has been found to contain many important species to develop a broad diversity of gut bacteria essential in the critical acquisition period (first 24 months).

Feeding with breast milk assists in developing the baby's immune system in a way that formula milk cannot achieve.

Breast feeding is the second most important beneficial bacteria acquisition method. The first being natural birthing, as opposed to elective c-section

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