[pronut-hiv] Infant Formula for AIDS orphan infants: what solution to you lean toward?

["Kristof & Stacia Nordin" <nordin@eomw.net>]

All the more reason for someone to work on something that can be made from 
local sources ASAP.   You state 2 big problems below (water and plant 
nutrients -although I'm a skeptic on negativity of tyring formulation based on some plants), what solution to you lean toward?

Sounds like there is no perfect solution at the moment.  We need to do the 
best we can with what we have.

Stacia
-----  "Ted Greiner"  wrote:


I'd just like to point out that breast milk substitution is a very serious 
business, not something for speculation. Plant foods will NEVER provide 
enough iron and almost certainly not enough zinc for infants. They need 
either animal sources--which do not include milk or eggs--or appropriately 
fortified foods. (Plant foods, irrespective of how much iron they contain, 
virtually always have levels of phytates, tannins and/or oxylates that 
inhibit iron absorption.)

  Even infant formula works poorly in low-income settings. Many of you may 
have heard about the large-scale disaster that recently occurred in 
Botswana, one of only two African countries that offers free formula to HIV+ mothers. On the order of 10,000 babies suddenly were hospitalized with diarrhea, over 400 dying, when apparently a rising water table widely 
contaminated water supplies.

  Ted Greiner, PhD