PASTEURISATION
Sir-Your correspondent E. Cain asks why it is necessary to boil pasteurised milk for infants if it has been rendered fit for human consumption. One may as well ask why boil water given to babies when our water supply is deemed fit to drink. Or why sterilise bottles and teats so carefully? Obviously the answer is that very young babies are tremendously susceptible to intestinal infections caused by getms which would never affect older children or adults. I was unable to feed my, first baby and she was brought up, not only on pasteurised milk, but dried pasteurised milk made up to the usual formula. She .is-now 20 months old and is drinking
the bottled pasteurised milk as it comes. A healthier, happier child you could not wish to see. Since she was born she has suffered from only two slight colds. Her teeth have come through beautifully, with scarcely any trouble. She has always been the picture of health, with firm flesh and perfect colour. My eye is not blinded by mother-love, Rather the reverse-one tends to inspect one’s own children closely. If she can do so well on pasteurised milk there cannot be very much wrong with it and one may as well take advantage of its greater safety.
WHY THE FUSS?
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 5
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216PASTEURISATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 5
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