Everyone loves honey, it's rich, sweet, natural, filled with so much sunshine and well, dangerous. Not everyone should take honey. It is advised that any child less than one year of age should not be given honey.

This is because there is a toxin that thrives in honey called Botulinum toxin. It might sound familiar because that is what celebrities inject on their faces (Botox) in little quantities to paralyze it all in a bid to reduce wrinkles and appear young or weird if you ask me.

However, In children less than a year, when exposed to these toxins in honey, their bodies are still so immature to fight it and its effects, thus it paralyzes not just the face making it impossible to feed but also the chest , making it difficult to breath, causing death.

There is no treatment for it, except to wait for the toxin to wear out from the body. Better still, why not just avoid honey in infants for just a year. Afterall, they have the rest of their lives to still experience the goodness that is honey.

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