New research published in the British Medical Journal warns that parents in Laos may be inadvertently feeding their babies coffee creamer, mistaking it for infant formula. The researchers say Bear Brand, which manufactures both infant formula and coffee creamer, uses the same logo on both products, showing a mother bear cradling a baby bear. Following interviews with health workers and parents, the researchers say warnings on coffee creamer packaging not to use it as baby food are insufficient, and say they want Nestle Thailand to use a different logo on these products.
My mother told me that she used to feed me with coffee creamer when I was a baby. The reason was that I cried a lot, and want to drink milk all the time. Now i know that if I drink mother's milk, I may become taller. I am now only 1.70
It may be because the traders and merchants sold them the coffee creamers instead of the formular milks. The coffee creamer is cheaper than the fomular milk.
because the low literacy rate--lack of education--many people cannot read
Yup. Same thing happened in rural Thailand & other southeast Asian countries.
Even real infant formula has its problems in rural areas where there's a lack of clean water for dissolving the powder...it's hard work collecting firewood for boiling water...so babies end up dying from diarrhoea caused by various diseases in unclean water.
