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Expert Q&A
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| By Melissa Clark Vickers International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Moms & Babies Huntingdon, Tenn. | ||
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Is it safe to eat honey while I am breastfeeding my 3-month-old?
The danger associated with honey and infants comes from the risk of the honey being contaminated with the botulism bacteria, which produces a deadly poison in the intestine of the infant. According to Thomas Hale, PhD, author of Medications and Mothers' Milk 2000, neither the bacteria nor the poison itself is secreted into breastmilk. This would seem to indicate that honey a nursing mother eats should not pose a problem to her breastfeeding infant."
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