英美女性網(wǎng)上出售母乳引爭(zhēng)議

Women in the UK and US are selling their breast milk online, despite serious concerns that it could be harmful for babies。

Mothers are using community forums, including Facebook, to make some quick cash out of their extra milk。

Buying breast milk is tempting to new parents struggling to express their own, as it provides babies with better protection against illnesses and allergies compared to formula。

Websites such as onlythebreast.com appear to answer this need, saying: 'Our discrete breastfeeding breast milk classified system makes it possible to sell or buy breast milk in a clean, private way.'

Donor mothers list their milk under the age of their baby and if they can provide fresh milk on demand. A search around the site reveals women from Essex to Newcastle are offering it either fresh or frozen for around £1 per fluid ounce, while $2 per ounce is the standard rate in the US. The site has 14,000 members。

The website's founder Glenn Snow said he set it up after his wife Chelly said she wanted to sell her extra milk to give her some spending money as a stay-at-home mother。

Mothers can donate and receive breast milk for free via milk banks. These centres store breast milk for babies whose mothers can't breastfeed. However, they give priority to babies who are sick。

The banks collect expressed milk from pre-screened mothers who have a plentiful supply and a baby under six-months old. It is then pasteurised before it is offered to nearby hospitals。

But today doctors in Germany warned new parents against privately obtaining their baby's food through social networks such as Facebook。

'Donors can be taking medicines or drugs, have infectious illnesses like AIDS or Hepatitis,' Wolfram Hartmann, president of the Professional Association of Pediatricians, said。

'Nobody can check whether the unknown mother's milk is harmless for the particular child' he warned, adding that the milk's quality could also be affected during its transportation。

一些來(lái)自英國(guó)和美國(guó)的女性在網(wǎng)上出售母乳引發(fā)爭(zhēng)議，有專家提醒稱這很可能對(duì)寶寶造成傷害。

這些媽媽們使用社交論壇，包括Facebook等社交媒體來(lái)出售母乳掙錢(qián)。

對(duì)母乳不足的新媽媽們，在網(wǎng)上購(gòu)買(mǎi)母乳非常有吸引力，因?yàn)榕c配方奶相比，母乳能增強(qiáng)寶寶的抵抗力，也使寶寶更不易過(guò)敏。

onlythebreast.com等網(wǎng)站滿足了這一需求，網(wǎng)站上寫(xiě)道：我們離散的母乳分類體系讓大家能夠出售和購(gòu)買(mǎi)母乳，購(gòu)買(mǎi)渠道衛(wèi)生且非常私密。

母乳提供者列出自己孩子的年齡，以及是否能根據(jù)需求量提供新鮮母乳。搜索該網(wǎng)站的信息可以看出，提供新鮮母乳或冷凍母乳的女性來(lái)自從艾塞克斯到紐卡斯?fàn)柕扔��?guó)各地，售價(jià)大約在每液盎司1英鎊，而美國(guó)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)售價(jià)是每盎司2美元。該網(wǎng)站有1.4萬(wàn)名會(huì)員。

網(wǎng)站創(chuàng)建者格倫-斯諾稱，之前她的妻子切麗說(shuō)想要出售多余的母乳，給自己這個(gè)全職媽媽掙點(diǎn)零花錢(qián)，于是他想到了創(chuàng)建這個(gè)網(wǎng)站。

通過(guò)“母乳銀行”，媽媽們可以免費(fèi)提供或接受母乳。這些機(jī)構(gòu)為無(wú)法吃到母乳的寶寶們儲(chǔ)存母乳，但優(yōu)先提供給生病的寶寶。

這類機(jī)構(gòu)在收集母乳前，會(huì)先對(duì)提供母乳的媽媽們進(jìn)行篩選，她們的母乳量十分充足，而且寶寶出生不到半年。之后還會(huì)對(duì)母乳進(jìn)行巴氏消毒，隨后提供給附近的醫(yī)院。

但德國(guó)的一些醫(yī)生警告新晉爸媽們，通過(guò)Facebook等社交網(wǎng)站私下獲取母乳有很大風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。

兒科醫(yī)生協(xié)會(huì)主席沃爾夫拉姆-哈夫曼說(shuō)：“提供者可能在服藥，可能在吸毒，也可能感染了艾滋病或者肝炎。”

“沒(méi)人能檢查出這些母乳對(duì)某個(gè)接受母乳的寶寶來(lái)說(shuō)是否有害。”他還補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，在運(yùn)輸過(guò)程中母乳也有可能變質(zhì)。