Beware of Mommy's Bliss Nipple Cream

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Heared this on the radio this morning, and this page confirms it. The FDA warns that Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream contains ingredients that may cause vomiting, diarrhea, and respiratory distress in infants.

I’m posting this because:
1.) I like posting things about Breasts, and writing “Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream”

2.) Considering that the entire point of this product is to use on the nipples of nursing mothers, ow is it they ended up using a potentially lethal ingredient for nursing babies?

Their own site claims that all ingredients are Gemnerally Recognized As Safe

http://www.babysbliss.com/Products/Detail.aspx?product=nipple-cream

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Yes, ladies, that stuff is bad news.

I recommend Winston’s Nipple Cream. Free delivery! While supplies last!

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I looked through their list of ingredients:

Most internet sites seem to be from people selling the ingredients, but, even if you avoid these, the ingredients seem pretty safe, except for Borage oil, which contains small amounts of potentially toxic chemicals. But, unless they’ve got a lot of borage in there, this looks relatively safe.

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Here is the ingrediants:

*  Shea Butter
* Borage Oil
* Evening Primrose Seed Oil
* Calendula Extract

Like most herbal remedies, you have to be careful - they aren’t tested, they certainly aren’t tested on infants. “Generally recognized as safe” is meaningless with a four day old. I take evening primrose oil for breast pain (internally, I’ve never heard of it doing a darn thing externally) and it can upset my tummy. Calendula is good externally, but you don’t drink it.

Why not just use lanolin, which mothers have used for thousands of years?

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From the FDA site:

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01839.html

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Well, that’s not a full list of ingredients. The actual ingredient list (that I’ve seen on links about this topic) is:

And the FDA’s original announcement addresses two near the bottom of that list:

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Chlorphenesin and phenoxyethanol seem to be preservatives often added to medicines. I thiought maybe they wrre constituents of the listed ingredients, but they seem to be additives that the Mommy’s people simply left out of their list, maybe because they considered them only trace additives.

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…but more likely because they aren’t as euphonious-sounding to their target market of granola moms.

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I’m putting my money here.

“Look - its herbal and natural” sells.

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I hate when people equate “herbal & natural” with “safe.” Invariably I ask them if they’ve ever heard of nightshade.

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I think it’s hysterical that the picture beside the story (when I checked, anyway) is dry, rocky, pockmarked Martian landscape. Is that supposed to be the before or the after shot for the nipple cream?

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“Mommy’s Bliss Nipple Cream” would’ve fit in perfectly in the recent “Japanese porn titles translated” thread.

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I dunno, do you have a list of ingredients?

(…This is one of those questions I’m going to regret asking, aren’t I.)

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Far better to use this instead.

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Many women brag how good for their hands and feet Udder Balm is. Maybe they should try it on the target area it’s meant for.

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Not if they are nursing.

If you are nursing, stick to something that babies have been ingesting without apparent consequences for generations - pure lanolin. Or tough it out for two weeks or so.

(Bag Balm ingredients: 8-Hydroxyquinoline Sulfate 0.3% in a petroleum lanolin base)