Water could be deadly for an infant

Drinking too much water can be deadly for an infant, and even small amounts offer little benefit to babies. Water is key to adult health, but babies get fully hydrated from drinking breast milk. When an infants drink too much water, the sodium levels drop too lo, this hinders the process of nutrients, which can cause seizures, coma and death.

According to pediatric nurse Danielle Stringer, for the first six months of  infants lives, they are better off getting all of their calories and water from breast milk or baby formula. Drinking water can deprive babies of calories that they need in the first six months of their lives, leading to malnutrition and death.

The American Academy of Pediatrics advises that infants should consume exclusively breast milk - if at all possible - for the first six months of their lives, and continuing with supplemented soft foods and drinks through their first year. When babies drink too much water, it knocks their sodium to fluid ratio out of balance, and they can die of water intoxication.

Their bodies will try to overcompensate by having the cells take on more water, which will result in swelling all over the body, including the brain, which can result in seizures, coma or brain death. In rare cases when a baby is given an inordinate amount of water, this can happen suddenly, it's more likely to occur with small doses of water, over time.

Long before they seize, a lot of babies will just start to show signs of malnutrition, such as losing weight and swelling. Their tiny, rapidly growing bodies need about all the calories they can get, meaning they need nourishment - in the form of breast milk or baby formula - about every two to four hours. Breast milk is about 88 percent water, so new mothers that can breastfeed need not worry that their infants could get dehydrated.

At six months old, you can offer water to your baby in a sippy cup, but they don't typically need it because they are still getting breast milk or formula. Between six and 12 months old, it is safe for infants to have two to four ounces of water, but even then, interestingly, babies are smart enough that they're mainly not interested in water at that age, and parents need to know that that's totally okay for them.
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Zika virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact

Zika virus is a mosquito-borne disease that is spread by the Aedes mosquito,
Casual contact like kissing or sharing of cutlery cannot transmit Zika virus from an infected person to others.

Mosquito bites are the major source of most Zika virus infections in people. After infection, the Zika virus is present in blood and saliva for two weeks, but it remains in bodily fluids like breast milk for weeks and semen for months.

The viral loads in the saliva are very low, anti-microbial components in the saliva also making that low level of virus less infectious than it might be in another bodily fluid like blood and semen.

Saliva is a viscous liquid, that prevents the ability of the virus to move and get to cells that they could infect.
Presently, there is no cure for Zika virus
infected person should rest, stay hydrated, use painkiller drugs and avoid mosquito bites.
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Breastfed children are at the risk of teeth decayed

According to the latest research, breastfeeding children for more than one year increases the risk of missing teeth and teeth decayed.

 Eating  and drinking increase bacteria in the mouth, toddler don't brush their teeth after taking breast milk and this exposed them to bacteria that causes teeth decayed.

Researchers examined children that are breastfed for more than recommended periods by American Academy of Pediatrics and discovered that breastfeeding is responsible for their missing and decayed teeth.

Breastfeeding for 13 to 23 months has no effect on cavity risk. Regular exposure to breast milk day and night increases the risk of teeth decayed.

Mothers can still breastfed for more than 23 months, but they have to reduce the risk of teeth decay by not breastfeeding for more than five times in a day and not at night. And by brushing the teeth of their children from 24 months two times in a day.
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Less than six months breastfeeding can raise risk of liver disease

Not breast feeding or stopping before six months raises a baby's  risk of having nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) later on in life.

Human breast milk contain various biologically-active constituents with a protective effect upon obesity.

It was also found that being obese at the early stage of pregnancy increased a baby's risk of the disease, which can lead to serious liver damage.

Smoking in the early days of pregnancy also increased the risk of NAFLD later in life.

 Infants should be fed breast milk exclusively for the first six months of life. Researchers performed liver ultrasound on more than 1,100 adolescents aged 17 years, who have been followed from birth.

Then they examined their medical records to see if there was a link between how long they were breastfed, their mothers' weight and smoking habit in pregnancy.

NAFLD was diagnosed in about 15 per cent of the adolescents examined.
It was found 94 per cent had been breastfed as infants.

The duration of breastfeeding before starting supplementary milk was four months in 55 per cent and six months in 40 per cent.

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Breast milk can kill cancer

Breast milk is being used to fight cancer after scientists discovered it contains a substance that kills tumour cells.

Trials in patients with bladder cancer yielded good results and researchers believe the compound breast milk contains – nicknamed Hamlet – will also help tackle bowel cancer and cervical cancer.

Breast milk is better than chemotherapy because it does not destroy healthy cells. Professor Catharine Svanborg, who made the initial discovery, said ‘There’s something magical about Hamlet’s ability to target tumour cells and kill them.’

Human breast milk contained a protein called alpha-lactalbumin, which is transformed into a cancer-fighting agent when in the gut.

Prof Svanborg, an immunologist at Lund University in Sweden, made the chance discovery that the substance kills tumour cells when working on antibiotics.

New breast milk is a very good source of  antimicrobial agents. During one
experiment we needed human cells and bacteria to be present, and we chose human tumour cells for practical reasons.

‘To our amazement, when we added this compound of milk, the tumour cells died. The substance attacks cancer cells  in numerous ways – first evading the cell’s outer defences, then targeting the ‘power station’ mitochondria and the  nucleus.

These actions cut off the cell’s energy source and ‘programme’ it to commit suicide, in a process called apoptosis.
Early trials in patients with bladder cancer show those injected with Hamlet start shedding dead tumour cells in their urine within days.