10-03-2004, 02:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Jillibeans
When quite a few children are brought up on biltong and no problems have arisen then I don't foresee a problem. This is the 1st time I have ever heard that babies should not have salt, funny all our friends and family have given salt to their babies and nothing has happened. I would never give advise to anyone that would put a baby/child in danager. I think to much stating of 'this and that' is bad for a baby/child and that is why today there are so many children that have all sorts of allergies. I think if a baby/child if fed good wholesome milk, food and sufficient water then there is no problems. Well that is the way I brought my children up and many of my family and friends, the way we were brought up in the old days!!!
In closing the bottom line is this - one can give advice to another, whether they take it is up to them
New research has come to light in the last 10 years or so that has proved salt to be bad for kids.
At one stage asbestos was considered safe, doctors used to Xray your entire body every time you visited them, thalidomide was considered to be a safe sleeping pill. All of these things mentioned are now known to be very very bad. Just because something *used* to me considered safe, does not always mean that new research should be totally disregarded.
We all grew up with Aspirin as the only painkiller, but you are now banned by law from giving aspirin to a child under 12 years of age, due to recent discoveries linking it to a fatal condition in children. Is it so hard to believe that excess salt in a babies diet can kill? (and lets face it, the average baby is going to consume far more convenience foods than we did while growing up, and as we all know, these convenience food contain huge quatities of salt. This means there is even less tolerance in a modern babies diet for chewing salty biltong)