Beware, E Coli Bacteria Baby Food Trap

Becareful concocting your own food for your baby. Besides watching the clean liness factor, observe all safety factors, especially the threat of danger to in filtrate bacteria in food. Today, not a few still ready own Moms Mother’s Milk Food Companion (MP-ASI) for infants aged 6-12 months.

Unfortunately, they still rarely looked at the factors of safety. In fact, the preparation of local MP-ASI unhygienic can cause contamination and pose one of them diarrheal diseases. Questioned diarrhea, please note that 90 percent of patients with diarrhea was a toddler. A strong suspicion that if food be the cause of 70 percent incidence of diarrhea, especially in developing countries.

In this regard, the promovendus Aria Kusuma conduct further studies of 599 infants aged 6-12 months of 139 households in the District of Solok. The result, 72.46 percent of the MP-contaminated local milk bacterium Escherichia coli (E coli). “The factors most related to E coli on presenting local MP-ASI is the existence of animals that roam in the house, contamination of the hands of food handlers, and drying hands with a cloth that is not guaranteed cleanliness,” said Aria encountered in the “Doctoral Degree Dissertation” in Doctoral Promotion Space, Building G School of Public Health, University of Indonesia, Depok.

Effort needs to be done is to prevent traffic animals in the house can be done in a simple way, including washing hands with soap under running water and wash cloth every day to ensure hand hygiene before preparing MP-local milk to infants aged 6-12 months.