This is an old folk remedy for new born babies that show yellow in their skin: jaundice. The cause is the liver could not keep up with the processes necessary for the breakdown of the red blood cells.
An old lady helped in the care of her great grandson. Within the first week of his life, the baby has jaundice. Doctors would normally recommend sunning in early morning sunlight. They would suggest that the mother spoons and force feed the baby with water in little spoonfuls if the infant is bottle fed. Should the infant be breast fed, it should have sufficient water from the breasts.
This old lady found unprocessed goat milk and fed the breast feeding mom one glass one morning. The infant suckles and went to sleep. Two hours later he passed motion, lots of yellow liquid came out. The next morning, the baby's color turned normal, the yellow tinge is gone.
Supposing it is a bottle fed baby, she said two spoonfuls of goat milk collected fresh from goats let out to pasture would do the trick if we feed it to the infant. I do wonder if it is safe to feed a new born unpasteurized milk. Perhaps it would be safer to heat the fresh milk to short of boiling first.
I sunned and force feed water to Kenneth for three days and had to send Crystal for photo therapy in the hospital overnight. For that hospitalization, Crystal was like a little pin cushion: she endured a few sessions of blood taking.
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