Breast milk turning into poison! Time to act

Is breast milk turning into poison? Will mothers feed pesticides to their infant kids? This may sound weird, but it seems to be true.

As many as 111 newborns lost their lives in the past ten months due to the pesticides found in the milk of pregnant women in Maharajgant district of Uttar Pradesh, according to a study by Lucknow’s Queen Mary Hospital.

The research by Queen Mary Hospital revealed that pesticides were found in the milk of pregnant women. The tests were conducted on 130 vegetarian and non-vegetarian pregnant women to find the reason behind the death of the infants.

The research by Professor Sujata Dev, Dr Abbas Ali Mehndi, and Dr Naina Dwivedi, was published in Environmental Research General.

It stated that fewer pesticides were found in the milk of vegetarian women than in non-vegetarians. However, pesticides have still been found in the breast milk of women who stay away from non-vegetarian food. The reason behind the pesticide in milk is chemical farming, stated the research.
Different types of pesticides and chemicals are put in green vegetables and crops. Animals are also injected with supplements and chemicals which have led to pesticide formation in the milk of a woman who eats non-vegetarian food.

The pesticides present in the breast milk of a woman who eats non-vegetarians were triple than that of a vegetarian woman.

The research said that while a newborn does not eat any meat or vegetables, pesticides still reach his/her body through the milk of the mother. Breast milk, which has some amount of pesticides present inside it, has severely harmed infants.