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If a baby is indirectly fed such drugs we must not be surprised to see its health adversely affected. So, if your baby has cradle cap, think about the drugs you might be taking. If you have the unpleasant habit of smoking, you should certainly give it up while you are breast-feeding. Think of your child. Would you want your baby’s health upset because your irresponsibility means it has to try and cope with poisonous nicotine?

Even during pregnancy nicotine has an adverse effect on the unborn child. You can prove this to yourself by means of a simple experiment. Place a stethoscope on the mother’s abdomen and count the child’s heartbeats. Then let the mother smoke just one cigarette and then count the beats again. You will note that they have increased by eight per minute! Once the mother and her partner have convinced themselves of this overstimulation, they will be in no doubt that the mother should give up smoking at once.

Certain foods can affect the mother’s milk in the same way as drugs. I have often seen a child’s cradle cap disappear within a few days if the mother avoids eating egg white. It is, therefore, especially important to adopt a healthy diet while breast-feeding, as set out in another section of this book. Nursing mothers should remember that they are eating for both themselves and the baby.

Try to breast-feed your baby for as long as possible. But if, in spite of changing your own diet, the child’s condition remains unaltered, then replace a meal by giving a bottle of almond milk or buttermilk. Babies suffering from cradle cap respond well to this less fatty food. Violaforce, the fresh plant extract made from wild pansy, can be added to buttermilk to enhance its curative effect.
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Cradle cap in babies gives the parents a lot of trouble. Though many think that it is due to external factors, such as infections, this is not so. It is simply an abnormal oversensitivity, a so-called trophic allergy, possibly also a symptom of deficiency. If you deal with the causes the condition will soon disappear. On the other hand, the baby may have been born with the weakness of oversensitivity. Initially, treat the underlying cause: good digestion is important, so if anything goes wrong in this respect, the bowels should be normalised with the aid of brown rice gruel, buttermilk and other natural means.

In the case of breast-fed babies, the cause of cradle cap may be in the mother’s diet. Unfortunately, few mothers pay much atten­tion to the fact that anything they ingest, especially medicines, finds its way into their milk and is passed on to their babies. For example, a mother may be constipated and take a laxative. Then her breast-fed baby suddenly has a bout of diarrhoea. The baby is treated with all manner of things, without success, until bottle-feeding is resorted to and the diarrhoea finally stops. What a pity, though, since the infant is deprived of the best food for it – breast milk. With a little knowledge and forethought the upset would never have occurred in the first place.

While she is breast-feeding, a mother should not take any laxa­tives that contain aloe and other strong substances. Instead, linseed preparations, such as Linoforce, psyllium seed and similar remedies are harmless and can be used to regulate the bowels. Other medi­cines are also known to enter into the composition of milk when the mother has taken them. Among the most common of these are Luminal and many other barbiturates which are used to make up various sedatives and sleeping pills, as well as bromide, morphia and mercury preparations, quinine, salicylic acid and many rem­edies for rheumatism, iodide of potassium, alcohol and nicotine.
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