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When is honey safe again? Is it 1 or 2 years? And what about baked goods with honey in them?
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Here's info from Dr. Sears:
raw honey:
http://www.askdrsears.com/faq/fit17.asp
cooked honey:
http://www.askdrsears.com/faq/fit22.asp
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raw honey:
http://www.askdrsears.com/faq/fit17.asp
cooked honey:
http://www.askdrsears.com/faq/fit22.asp
Our pediatrician told us it wasn't until age two that some children's systems develop the ability to kill the botulism spores.
I wish just once, the medical profession could get together with a definitive answer to SOMETHING.
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We're continuing to avoid raw honey (at 14 months) but if something contains cooked honey as an ingredient, we're okay with it. I guess that's sort of a happy medium....
I wish just once, the medical profession could get together with a definitive answer to SOMETHING.
We're continuing to avoid raw honey (at 14 months) but if something contains cooked honey as an ingredient, we're okay with it. I guess that's sort of a happy medium....
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I'm with you about the lack of definitive answers! However, if pasteurization won't kill botulism spores, cooking them into food certainly won't either. I just read the Wikipedia article on honey and found it interesting that corn syrup and other natural sweetners aren't safe for infants either. I didn't know that!
Here's the quote: Honey, corn syrup and other natural sweeteners are a potential threat to infants.[38] Harmless to adults because of their stomach acidity, botulinum endospores are widely present in the environment and can persist in a dormant state in honey.[38] Since an infant's digestive excretions are non-acidic, ingestion of honey creates an ideal medium for botulinum endospores to grow and produce sufficient levels of toxins to cause infant botulism.[38] For this reason, it is advised that neither honey, nor any other sweetener, be given to children under the age of 12 months.[38] Once a child is eating solid food, the stomach produces enough gastric acid to prevent the germination of the endospores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey
Originally Posted by nighten  I wish just once, the medical profession could get together with a definitive answer to SOMETHING.
We're continuing to avoid raw honey (at 14 months) but if something contains cooked honey as an ingredient, we're okay with it. I guess that's sort of a happy medium.... |
Here's the quote: Honey, corn syrup and other natural sweeteners are a potential threat to infants.[38] Harmless to adults because of their stomach acidity, botulinum endospores are widely present in the environment and can persist in a dormant state in honey.[38] Since an infant's digestive excretions are non-acidic, ingestion of honey creates an ideal medium for botulinum endospores to grow and produce sufficient levels of toxins to cause infant botulism.[38] For this reason, it is advised that neither honey, nor any other sweetener, be given to children under the age of 12 months.[38] Once a child is eating solid food, the stomach produces enough gastric acid to prevent the germination of the endospores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey
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