Warning!
If you do any projects in which students will be preparing recipes using honey at home, please make a copy of this warning and send home to parents in cause of small siblings in the house.
Visit this web site to access more information about honey: Honey Facts
Note to Parents:
Your Baby's Tummy
isn't Ready for Honey!
DO NOT add honey
to your baby's food, water or formula.
DO NOT dip your baby's pacifier in
honey.
DO NOT give your baby honey as medicine.
Honey may contain bacterial spores that can cause infant botulism - a rare but serious disease that affects the nervous system of young babies (under one year of age). Botulism spores are common and may be found in dust, soil and uncooked foods. Adults and children over one year of age are routinely exposed to, but not normally affected by, botulism spores.
The following are symptoms of infant botulism. Call your doctor immediately if your baby:
is too weak to suck or cry as usual
does not want to feed or cannot swallow
has weak arms, legs or neck
suffers from constipation for more than three day
Visit: Health: Bees, Honey Bees and Wasps to learn what to do about stings.