A growing market in the online sale of human breast milk is creating a serious health risk, doctors have warned.
British experts are concerned that the booming craze for breast milk - which is bought by adult fitness fanatics or those who have chronic diseases - could spread life-threatening disease.
An increasing number of adults are drinking breast milk, convinced that the health benefits it provides to infants could boost their fitness and immune systems.
Internet forums match buyers with breast-feeding mothers who have excess milk to sell.
Fetching £50 a pint or more, the milk is offered either fresh or frozen, and is often available by post.
UK doctors warn that the unlicensed breast milk market is posing a growing danger to health.
British doctors have warned buying human breast milk online, thinking it can benefit your health and fitness levels, is wrong, adding the practise of adults drinking breast milk is dangerous
Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, they call for regulators to make it clear buying milk online is not safe.
‘The latest supplement – touted as completely natural, free-from and a ‘super food’ – human breast milk has emerged as a recent craze among adults,’ they said.
‘Online forums are replete with posts boasting about the immune, recovery, nutritional and muscle building benefits of human milk.
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