5.10.2011

"You're using WHAT?!"...the breastmilk saga continues

I was recently told that I was "gross" for using expressed breastmilk medicinally, as I documented in a Facebook post. Now, why am I gross for using a "product" that is completely safe, natural and FREE, but those over-the-counter drugs are considered OK? At least I know what is in breastmilk! Not the chemicals and who-knows-what-else that are in drugs and other OTC products. Breastmilk serves many purposes other then nourishment for babies. In fact, breastmilk serves many more medicinal purposes then most people think! READ THIS:

I also have to laugh and shake my head about this because people seem to have no problem drinking and using the breastmilk from cows and other animals (yes -it IS breastmilk!!), but for some reason are disgusted by the milk from their own species! Other then food items, animal milk is used in soaps, lotions, and face/ hair creams, just to name a few. Just so I understand this correctly, it's ok and even told beneficial to smear animal milk-based cream all over your body, but it's disgusting to use human milk in your eye/nose to clear up an infection or on diaper rash?











Well, if you're ok with that, here are a few hidden ingredients in foods/products that come from animals:
  • Albumen - Egg whites used to clarify some wines.
  • Casein - Milk protein found in some soy cheese and other non-dairy foods.
  • Castoreum - The liquid from the anal musk gland of beavers used to make sauces creamier and enhance raspberry flavoring.
  • Cochineal/carmine - Red food color/dye used to color juice, baked goods, apple sauce, makeup, etc. This color is derived from crushing the female cochineal insect. 70,000 insects are needed to make one pound of dye.
  • Gelatin - Protein made by boiling the hides, skins, connective tissues, hooves or bones of cows, horses and pigs.
  • Isinglass - Sturgeon bladder used to clarify some wines.
  • L-Cysteine - Flavor and dough enhancer mainly  from duck feathers or human hair(mainly from Chinese barber shops)
  • Lactose - Milk sugar from mammals found in many foods.
  • Rennet - Scraped stomach lining from cows or sheep used in alot of cheeses.
  • Urea, uric acid - Excreted from urine and other bodily fluids used to brown some baked goods like pretzels.
You can visit any of my previous posts on "breastfeeding" where I have well documented our use for breastmilk other then for food. It has served our family well, and I am glad to still be producing this "liquid gold"! Mamas - beware of people that might derail you from using your perfect, God-given cure-all! If you got it - use it!

1 comment:

Mary (from yoga :) said...

I've used breast milk to make macaroni and cheese :) breast milk Popsicles, breast milk ice cream, used it for a clogged tear duct and more.