Why can't you give a baby a small amount of alcohol exactly? They might become alcoholics?
The alcohol helps them sleep. Which if you as a parent are falling apart is better than shaking them to sleep.
I think this is back to the intense pressure put onto parents through pop science.
"Woodward's Gripe Water contained 3.6% alcohol" So it's like giving them a teaspoon of mild beer.
Scientists : Fat makes you fat, so we all ate sugar. Scientists: A virus is tiny and obviously can pass through a non-N95 mask.
You're proving OPs point - you can't apply bullshit logic to science.
"It’s simply not known how alcohol will affect the long-term memory and learning skills of people who began drinking heavily as adolescents."
Maybe the section on drink driving is more appropriate on babies having a teaspoon of beer when colic?
We've lost the ability to think for ourselves, and it seems to Google.
We know that it actively harms cell division and brain development...
But long term studies of babies/adolescents' drinking problems haven't been studied (disregarding that it's impossible due to ethics)...
And you still want to argue that it should be okay to give babies alcohol?
Again, think about it for a sec. OFC scientifically there are no compelling studies on the lifetime of alcohol abuse. Empirically hard to do!
That does not rule out that it's bad - and our point here is giving alcohol to babies - well, knowing the evidence, babies shouldn't drink!
Recent example, of a quack medical treatment involving giving babies alcohol:
> Prior to alcohol's removal from the recipe, Woodward's maximum recommended dose of gripe water contained an alcohol content equivalent to five tots of whiskey for an 80kg adult. It was only in 1992 that Britain mandated that alcohol be removed from Gripe water, and in 1993 the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered an automatic detention of all shipments of Woodward's Gripe Water into the U.S.
Giving babies alcohol, in various forms and often in quite large amounts, was part of the ‘conventional wisdom’ for a long time (though never really endorsed by medical science). If peoples’ guts were so wrong then, I wouldn’t trust them now.