This week you might have seen a heartbreaking story being shared, in which a leading medical expert warned that three toddler deaths in the past two years in Australia had been linked to excessive cow’s milk consumption.
The young children had developed infections, but also had extreme iron deficiency anaemia, where a lack of iron in the body leads to a reduced number of red blood cells – the condition had been linked to them drinking too much cow’s milk.
Dr Sally Campbell, a haematologist at Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) told ABC: “They were drinking more than one litre of cow’s milk per day. This resulted in them developing extreme iron deficiency anaemia and, sadly, dying.
“They had a virus or something else that tipped them over the edge, but the cause of their severe iron deficiency anaemia w...
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