Honey? (like from bees )?!
Answers: what food group does honey go into? my Home EC teacher said it would go under sweets cuz of the sugar, what do you think? and another question, why cant infiants have it? is it because they're immune system cant handle it? any ideas?
hi, uhm, yeah...it would go under the sweets and fats. Honey also can put infants at risk to botulism.....
Botulinum spores are found widely in soil, dust, and honey. Adults who swallow botulinum spores are almost never affected. When infants swallow the spores, however, the spores can germinate in their immature gastrointestinal tracts and begin producing botulinum toxin. This has occurred even when the honey was only used to sweeten a pacifier (European Journal of Epidemiology, Nov 1993).
Botulinum toxin is the most poisonous natural substance known to man. The lethal dose is only 1/10,000,000 mg per kg of body weight -- an amount that would be invisible to the naked eye. This tiny amount in the blood stream can cause death within minutes through paralysis of the muscles used in breathing.
Infant botulism has been found on every continent except Africa. In the United States it is most common in the states of California, Utah, and Pennsylvania. While infant botulism can occur from taking in soil or dust (especially vacuum cleaner-bag dust), eating honey is the number one preventable cause. Corn syrups are not sterilized and may also be a source of contamination (The AAP Red Book, 2000).
Infant botulism can occur any time in the first year of life, but like SIDS it is most common in the first six months. In fact it has been suggested as the cause of death in up to 10% of SIDS cases (Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics; Saunders 1992).
Thankfully, in most instances of infant botulism, the amount of toxin is so incredibly minuscule that the case remains mild. For this reason it is often misdiagnosed.
The first symptom of infant botulism is constipation (which is also a common benign finding in many infants). This can appear 3 to 30 days following ingesting spore-containing honey (The AAP Red Book, 2000). Typically, the parents then observe increasing listlessness, decreased appetite, and weakened cry over the next several days. Nursing mothers often report new engorgement. Sometimes this is the full extent of the disease. If the disease progresses, however, the child moves less and less and might begin to drool from the mouth. Gagging and sucking reflexes diminish. Loss of previous head control is also an important sign. Complete respiratory arrest can occur either suddenly or gradually.
If an otherwise healthy baby develops constipation, followed by weakness and difficulty in sucking, crying, or breathing, then infant botulism should be considered the most likely diagnosis until proven otherwise.
When infant botulism is diagnosed, the average Intensive Care Unit stay for the baby is about one month, typically including mechanical ventilation and continuous tube feedings. This is followed by another 2 weeks on the hospital ward, with a total hospital cost often exceeding $100,000 (Pediatrics; Feb 1991). Thankfully if the botulism is correctly diagnosed and the baby receives appropriate supportive care, almost all will recover fully and completely. The fatality rate for babies who have been hospitalized with botulism is less than 1%. Recently, an antitoxin for infant botulism has been developed and shown to reduce hospital days, mechanical ventilation, and tube feedings (The AAP Red Book, 2000).
The single most effective way to prevent infant botulism is for infants to avoid honey. Breast feeding also appears to lessen the severity of botulism cases.
Despite other health benefits, honey is an unsafe food for any infant. HONEY SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN 12 MONTHS
It is a spread as far as I am concerned, but it is a good sweetener in tea or coffee.
I haven't heard about not feeding it to infants.
Yes. It falls under sweets. And yes, infants can't have it because of their immune systems.
Yes, it has to go under sweets because basically 100% of calories are from sugar. That doesn't mean that it isn't more natural and healthy than cane sugar. It is better, as it is less refined and has not been stripped of its trace mineral through processing. Still, it is a sweetener and should be used fairly sparingly. Infants can't have it because raw honey could pose a small botulism risk in children under one year of age. A healthy adult could fight off any botulism in honey.
It falls under sweets ... limited amounts because it is, in essence, sugar.
Honey should not be fed to infants younger than a year old. Clostridium bacteria which causes infant botulism usually thrives in soil and dust. The bacteria, in turn, can contaminate certain foods ... honey being one of them. When children get older than a year, their bodies are better able to handle the bacteria.
Listen to your Home Ec teacher because she knows a little
more on this subject then people your age. Infants can't have
honey because it messes up their immune systems. If you
need more information on this subject on infants and honey,
please ask your doctor.
Infants should not consume honey because honey can contain bacterial spores that produce Clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism in infants. It is unknown why it doesn't cause botulism in older children and adults. And yes honey would definitely go under sweets.
right, to get less sugar instead on saccrine sub. honey for sugar and yes infants dont have an immune system strong enough yet to handl most things execpt milk
Your home ec teacher is right. It's a sweet.
http://www.umass.edu/nibble/infofile/sug...
Infants younger than 12 months are at risk of infant botulism from eating honey. Infant botulism is a rare but serious form of food poisoning.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-...
yah its in fats and sweats
honey should not be consumed by any body, the honey we get here is maid by hybrid bees so therefore its no good. Its just another thing to get you well on your way to diabetes. if you want natural honey or good honey, go to Jamaica and find a Lil bee that looks like a fly and is always busy doing something like digging into the ground. then find its nest and get your honey.
babies are born sick anyways, cause mom and dad eats garbage so when they come together to make this baby, all that bad eating is pass on to baby. look at babies, nose running, wheezing in there chest, booger in there eyes, and to add to that the doctor gives them those poisonous shots, out right wrong, after they're born and throughout their and our childhood.