Online human breast milk craze has serious health risks: Experts
A baby reacts in front of a poster at the Guangzhou Women and Children's medical centre in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou May 8, 2013. Photo: Reuters
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PUBLISHED ONJune 18, 2015 1:15 PM
A growing online craze among some fitness communities, fetishists and chronic disease sufferers for buying and drinking human breast milk poses serious health risks, British experts said on Thursday.
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, specialists said there was little evidence to support claims that the milk - traded via websites in a lucrative market for adult buyers - is some kind of super food that can boost health and fitness and ward off disease.