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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 19:36:32 GMT -5
We recently had a very rough week. My entire family came down with a bacterial infection from some raw milk we were getting. I was so excited, b/c it fit with our more natural diet that I'm always striving for. Also, my boys (teens) weren't having the lactose problems with it that they get from store-bought. I'm really down about this, but I'm afraid to try anything else. My husband especially was in a lot of pain. I guess I'll try the pasteurized organic milk. Any words of advice here?
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Post by George on Feb 21, 2010 19:55:51 GMT -5
I am so sorry to hear of your difficulties with the raw milk. Do you get it from a certified dairy? Here in California before a dairy can sell even a gallon of raw milk they must undergo rigorous health inspection procedures and those procedures are redone quite often. They are not required to treat the milk in any way but it has to meet very strict standards.
"Also, my boys (teens) weren't having the lactose problems with it that they get from store-bought."
Isn't that interesting? I cannot drink fluid milk. It really "gunks" me up. However when I was a high-schooler my mother took me to a farm where she grew up. The man who owned the dairy had just milked the cows. He ran the raw milk through a cooler and gave me a glass of it. it was really outstanding and it caused me no problems at all, just like your boys.
In Christ, George
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Post by Brother Ben on Feb 21, 2010 23:15:50 GMT -5
Just make sure the source is using sanitary methods of milking, filtering, and bottling. Naturally, milk has bacteria in it and if there is any facet of gathering the milk that is unsanitary, the bad bacteria is going to out-number the good. Our systems are so refined from all the antibiotics in our foods and the ultraclean ways of our Americana, that we can't handle a little bacteria or we end up with Montezuma's revenge or worse. Did ya'll beef up (no pun intended,) on probiotics (acidophilus,) to restore you good bacteria? I realize there may be the tendancy to be once bitten, twice shy, when you got so sick, but if it was just a freak occurance, there probably is not much risk of going back to raw milk again. We have drank it on and off for years and it didn't even come from a registered farm, just neighbors who put it straight into a 1 gallon pickle jar. We have been milking our milk nannies for 3 weeks this next Friday. It is so good. They made goat milk vanilla ice cream to go with the peach cobler yesterday. Mmmm mmm! Be encouraged, raw milk is still a good way to go for natural health. How good is the BGH we get at the store! I'll trust the raw milk. Just make a trip over and discuss their sanitation methods and the fact that ya'll got so sick, perhaps they'll be more careful. Here is an article I thought was interesting. Raw Milk Makes a Comeback in MaineBro. Ben
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Post by Rejoiceevermore on Feb 22, 2010 0:52:29 GMT -5
I really never heard of anyone getting sick from raw milk it might of been a wrong food combination or lactose intolerance. The best way to find out is to do a detox diet for 10 days not to eat any allergy causing foods and then one by one add them in to your diet. You'll see exactly what food gives you a problem. Good beginners book with recipes is on rwood.com it's called Detox. I used to buy milk with a church group from Mennonites who milked their cows by hand and then poured it in to glass gallon jars. I never got my jar that I washed so good so the jar we drank our milk from was someone else's and I don't know how it was washed and if sterilized at all but we drank the milk by faith and never got sick. Then when my husband started to make more money I began to buy milk from an organic raw farm it wasn't as cheap but I didn't have to worry about whose jar I'm going to get this time. Bacteria is everywhere but pasteurized milk has much more bad bacteria then you can imagine. We eat raw eggs and never get sick but I would never eat a raw egg from the store because they treat them with chemicals. I personally would never drink pasteurized milk it doesn't appeal to me I compare it to eating a dead animal - it's dead. Very rarely do I buy store bought organic sour cream or cottage cheese but since it has live bacteria it's better to eat that then drink pasteurized milk. Pasteurized anything is bad. If we don't have money to buy raw milk we drink water and tea until we do have money to buy milk or we also drink coconut milk another great alternative. Good website to read drrons.com and his blog is informative too. May God be glorified.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2010 15:40:30 GMT -5
Thank you for the words of encouragement. We did make sure to have live culture yogurt after our experience, Brother Ben. And I do think it was just a sanitation issue. The dairy is not licensed. I don't think it has to be here. Many thanks, Cassie
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Post by benshelpmeet on Mar 19, 2010 12:17:11 GMT -5
Dear sister Cassie,
Are you sure it was the milk and not that nasty stomach virus, we all got it here. Our neighbor and friends got it too, they do not even drink raw milk or eat healthy, it has gone around a few times.
Blessings, ~ sister Darlene ~
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Post by jessicasherrow on Mar 19, 2010 18:35:13 GMT -5
I personally have never had raw milk, but I have heard that if you are not used to it, it could make you sick. Alot of Amish and others who have their own cows, have always drank it so their bodies are used to it. In our world today, people are constantly trying to sanitize things and a result of that is that we are weaker. We simply cannot handle some bacteria because our bodies have never been around it to create the antibodies needed to protect us. Now, my husband told me that if you boil the milk for a few minutes before refrigerating, that it will help kill the bacteria. Now, I don't know exactly how you do it because we still buy our milk from the store. I would give it a second chance though and maybe your body will start to adjust once it gets use to it. I would definitely try raw milk if I could.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2010 13:19:07 GMT -5
To answer the last couple of posts, we have been drinking raw milk on and off for about three years, so it was not that we were not used to it. My husband thought for the first few days that it was a virus, but finally went to the hospital and got tested. It was Campylobacter infection. Thank you for your concern. -Cassie
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