Mom says raw milk made kids sick

Posted: April 16th, 2008 - 6:22am by Doug Powell

A mother writes in the blog of the New Jersey Star-Ledger that,
 
"What began as a two-night getaway at a farm in Lancaster County, Pa., turned into a calamity of nightmarish proportions for me and my two kids when we drank raw milk.

My friend and I took our children to a working farm during spring break. They milked cows, fed bottles of milk to calves and ran free on acres of land - a rarity for these city kids.

They also drank the milk that was on the breakfast table, a milk I might add, that was the most silky and delicious any of us had ever tasted. We were told it was unpasteurized, but made to believe it was safe. (I assumed it was at least boiled).

A day after returning home, we knew we had made a terrible mistake. The first to fall ill was my five-year-old daughter, who had a high fever, then stomach flu symptoms, then my four-year-old son, then me.

My friend and her family had become violently ill as well. We spent seven days worried that our kids could dehydrate and forced them to drink gallons of Gatorade. My friend did get dehydrated and needed intravenous fluids in order to return to her job as a nurse.

After a week of this torture, medical tests showed we had contracted campylobacter, a bacterial food poisoning that can be found in unpasteurized milk. The six of us were prescribed antibiotics.

Thankfully, we're all going to be OK.

To be fair, campylobacter can also be spread by contact with raw or undercooked poultry, as the farm owners later told us, but the likely culprit according to my doctor was the raw milk."
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Comments

P. from Weston MA says:

Hahahaha! "Barfblog", that's a hilarious blog name. Informative too -- now I know to stay away from raw milk.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 - 11:32am

Irene Jones says:

I've been drinking raw milk for 60 years and never had any problems except the few times I drank pasteurized milk -- it seems pasteurized milk causes me to be lactose intolerant while raw milk goes through my system without any problems and actually makes me feel invigorated -- I'll never, never drink pasteurized milk again, especially now that I know that heated milk makes me sick. As to people who get sick from raw milk, I say balony, they must have been sick before they drank the milk -- in fact, I have served it to my children and all of my family drank raw milk growing up as did my husband's huge family and none of us ever got sick from drinking raw milk.Irene Jones

Posted on May 12th, 2008 - 1:08pm

radloh says:

Irene, you are a perniciously sick evil woman> i am on a farm now, on the way to the hospital> three of my friends have been hospitalised in the past three days. I have never been sick in my life.Yeah, it wasn't from the raw milk, it was from your felloipain-tube driven hippie skulldudgery.I'm reading your sick comment on my blackberry on the way to be treated.One friend, who is now in the hospital, has been screaming from the bathroom for two days before we called an ambulance.I'd like to forcefeed the raw milk coming out of me and my friends right now> it's clean, all-natural, and if you get sick, you probably had a previous condition.

Posted on November 18th, 2009 - 9:58am

Ross says:

Radloh, what the hell are you talking about?

Posted on March 12th, 2011 - 8:33pm

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