bacteria in formula milk

[littleweed]

Ok so I should know better than to read the daily mail let alone fully believe anything I read in it but it has an article today about meningitis bacteria breeding in milk after its been made up & multiplying in a really short space of time. obviously I read this just as I had poured teh remainder of DS's milk on his wettabix for him to finish adn now am paranoid. why does this bloody paper seem to delight in publishing scare stories about the evils of bottlefeeding/going back to work/anythinh that doesn't conform to some 1950's stepford wife scenario. i really should change to a decent newspaper.......rant rant rant

I have just read this on the other thread for this.

here is the other thread.

I just read it to this all started about 2001 don't know why the Daily Mail has chosen to write about it again. Working for a supermarket that sell the formula we've been working on it this morning.

I think as long as you follow the maunfacturers instructions it should be OK there has only been one case where it has caused illness in a baby that wasn't premature. If your child is weaned there immune system should be advanced enough to cope.

I think it makes good scare stories - baby food linked to meningitis!

In my view the Mail has a 1950s, anti-female bias. Since I had ds they've run stories about working mothers neglecting kids on what seems a weeklybasis, working mums being more likely to get cancer, mothers who drink being more likely to abuse kThey also ran this story last year by the way and then as now I'd like to know where these factories are that don't have the bug present in their workers cos to do that the staff must all be robots!! Mothers, and working women, would be a lot happier if they didn't read the bloody mail - or so my scientific survey says!!

I think PR companies and academics see it as an easy outlet for their research stories, forgetting that they mangle anything you give them to fit their agenda. I'm a PR myself and I won't deal with them on principle.

This is actually a story from this week's New Scientist and I've seen it in other papers, though not in the DM. HTH

Suedonim - thanks for the link - I don't quite understand the point they are making about preparing feeds ahead - do they mean you should not do it at all, or just that they should be kept in the fridge (which I do anyway!!)

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Laura

M2S, I took it to mean that it's okay to prepare ahead, so long as you refrigerate the feed, but if you want to cut the risk to the minimum prepare it as you need it. If I was using formula with a healthy baby, I'd still be happy to prepare ahead and refrigerate.

If you are concerned get one of those Avent 3 section containers so each feed is prepared fresh.

Just echoing Beccarollover - i make up bottles with cooled boiled water, then if i am going out, take along the avent dispenser and mix feeds wherever i am - simple.
But saying that my daughter has just had meningitis. Apparently anyone can be infected with it or carry it and just not know. It may be a simple head ache to one person, and then develop in to temperature and aches in others. It is all a lottery at the end of the day.

Fee, sorry to read your daughter had menigitis. This is every parents worst worry. May I ask you how did you detect it, was she hospitalised and how long before the worst of it was over?

Thanks Chick-Pea, she just had a high temperature. I gave it three days before seeing a doctor, who very smuggly gave her neurofen and watched her temp fall, but a couple of hours later it was back up. Waited till the next day to see a doctor at my clinic, and was determined not to be fobbed off. She had a high temp, was really lethargic and limp, and kind of whimpered. I didn't know it was meningitis, i just knew she was a poorly bunny! They sent me to A&E who thought it was a throat infection and admitted us so they could give her anti-biotics, then the next day when she was no better they did a lumber puncture. Once she was on the correct antibiotics she recovered quickly - we spent 4 days in hospital and then had a home care team visit to continue the doses at home. She is now right as rain, and today is our first day out with friends (she was kept in to give her immune system chance to recover)! I think i will have jaw ache from all the chatting later!