I have heard of using breast milk in a babies ears alsodeb
gmetrop...@aol.com wrote: I used breast milk in the eyes of my healthy
newborns preventively and it always worked for conjuctivitis. A Belgium M.D.
suggested it many years ago.
I used breast milk in the eyes of my healthy newborns preventively and it
always worked for conjuctivitis. A Belgium M.D. suggested it many years ago.
Yes, the silver nitrate they use is not very gentle. Naturally, we know
what would be better, but of course CS isn't approved.
M.
> My first child was given silver nitrate after birth which is caustic.She
> also continued to have senitive eyes and vision weakness. My son had
> antibiotic drops w
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Subject: Re: CS>Silver in newborn eyes
My first child was given silver nitrate after birth which is caustic.
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believe women should be tested for
chlamydia and gonorrhea and treated if necessary and only babies whose
mothers have infection be treated.
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Wendy
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My first child was given silver nitrate after birth which is caustic.She also
continued to have senitive eyes and vision weakness. My son had antibiotic
drops with no issues and the other 4 had nothing and have better than 20/20. Of
course I also knew there was no transferrable infection.
They use to use silver nitrate in the baby's eyes, but because the
pharms made no money on it they convinced most hospitals to use
unreliable antibiotics instead. A hospital locally was using
antibiotics, and a baby was blinded because the gonerreah it was exposed
to was immune to the antibiotics.
Is it still the protocol to put a silver compound in newborn baby's eyes? I
was mildly surprised to hear my daughter has been offered this as an option
from her midwife. I knew this was done for the possibility of syphilis caused
blindness previously, but still, with the ability to test for the
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