Amid the baby formula shortage, medical medical experts warn homemade solutions can be dangerous. But influencers are sharing recipes anyway
A video suggesting a mix of Carnation evaporated milk, Karo syrup, baby vitamins and distilled water has a whopping 860,000 views. Another evaporated milk and corn syrup video has been watched more than 120,000 times. The combination is one of the most popular recipes bouncing around social platforms, with many users arguing it’s how they or their parents were fed, before the introduction of modern formula.
Carla Cevasco, an assistant professor of American studies at Rutgers University and a historian of infant feeding, recently posted aexplaining that before the invention of formula, many babies who couldn’t breastfeed died because the other options were either unsafe or nutritionally incomplete. “People have always needed alternatives [to breastfeeding,]” she says. “It’s just been a fairly recent phenomenon that those alternatives have been safe.
Juli Novotny, who runs the plant-based recipe blog Pure Kitchen, doesn’t see the problem with sharing information about homemade formulas with parents in need. Novotny posted a formula recipe for her 6,700 Instagram followers last week that got around 250 likes. It includes goat’s milk, carrot juice, flax oil, and nutritional yeast. She says she fed the recipe to her own then-baby, who’s now a healthy 14-year-old.
Malori, a homesteader who runs the account Black Rifle Homestead and who asked to use only her first name, as she does on social media, says she would never use an evaporated milk recipe, and she gets why healthcare professionals would advise against them. But, she also thinks officials are painting with too broad a brush when they say not to usehomemade formula.
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