Premature Infant Formula's Are Causing Organ Shut Down In Babies

Via America’s Lawyer: It’s not uncommon for babies to be born prematurely, as U.S. delivery rooms see over 300-thousand preemies a year. What is shocking though, is how certain brands of popular formulas are endangering the lives of these infants – yet are still being sold on store shelves. Filling in for Mike Papantonio this week, Farron Cousins is joined by attorney Sara Papantonio to discuss lawsuits filed against the manufacturers of Enfamil and Similac, which failed to disclose the dangers of feeding their formula to preemies.

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It's not uncommon for babies to be born prematurely, as delivery rooms see over 300,000 preemies a year. What is shocking though is how certain brands of popular baby formulas are endangering the lives of these infants yet are still being sold on store shelves. Attorney Sara Papantonio joins me now to talk about this. Sara, let's start at the beginning here, obviously. What problems are we seeing with these infant formulas with regard to the premature babies?

Right, and it's important that you highlight that the problem lies with premature babies. We've got companies like Abbott and Mead who produce infant formula and they give those, that infant formula to hospitals with no instructions, no warnings, no nothing. And so hospitals then feed that formula to all the babies. But what the years and years, if not decades and decades, of science tells us is that preterm babies can't digest that specific formula and the reason they can't digest it is because it's made of a cow's milk enzyme. So when you talk about preterm babies, we're talking about babies who are born between 24 weeks and 37 weeks. Their, their systems haven't developed, right? They don't have those digestive enzymes that can take in that cows milk like a normal term baby could. So that's why we're seeing preterm babies develop necrotizing enterocolitis, which is just a really, really terrible disease, which causes the, basically, the baby's organs to shut down and break down.

And, and with the, you know, you said about 24 months to 37 months, 24 months is about as early as a child could be born and still be viable. So, so we're talking about babies in some instances that, you know, maybe four months out of the womb before they should have been. So that's a big problem. So how serious is the condition though? This necrotizing enterocolitis. I mean, this, from what I've seen is pretty terrible for these babies.

Right. What we know about those little baby infants, who, who barely have a fighting chance already is that they're predisposed to what we call necrotizing enterocolitis. I'm going to call it nec for short. And what that is is like I said, the organs break down, but they break down because they're small, they cause small perforations within the intestines, which causes bacteria to leak into the body and causes the baby's organs to shut down and often results in death. What we see is that that preterm infant formula advances that nec, it causes that nec and it can cause it within a matter of hours when these babies are being fed this formula. And it's just something that these manufacturers are not telling hospitals and doctors. In fact, they're even advertising it to hospitals and doctors as being suited for preterm infants, which is just absolutely absurd when you really take at a look at the science and, and the studies that have happened since the 1990s that tell us, do not give this stuff to infant preterm babies.

And, you know, that's an interesting point to make too. This isn't something we've just discovered. Well, we've discovered, you know, the, some of the problems here, but the studies are going back to, to the nineties. So we're talking about, you know, 30, 35 years at this point.

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