"I started shaking": The mother of a baby injured in the Remedia affair responds to the Similac storm
After the company announced that it was removing products from the pharmacy shelves, Michal Treasurer told 103FM that the announcement caused her post-trauma.
"Fear always exists. Not believing how much memory remains," she said.
"Reality will not be the same reality again"
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21/02/2022
Monday, 21 February 2022, 09:29 Updated: 10:43
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Michal Gazber, the mother of the late Avishai who was injured in the Remedia affair, reacted this morning (Monday) to the Similiac storm, against the background of the death of the American baby who consumed baby food. "The fear always exists.
I got a link to the article and started shaking - this is really post-trauma, "she said in an interview with 103FM. In the Remedia case, five babies died due to a lack of vitamin B1 in the formula.
Reality will not return to being the same reality.
Last night, Abbott, which markets Similac products in Israel, announced that it would recall two products in Israel, Elementum
and Breast Enricher, manufactured in a factory in the United States where products were allegedly contaminated. These are products provided in hospitals and pharmacies. only.
This follows the announcement by the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that it is investigating four hospitalizations of infants who have consumed baby food.
In one case the baby died.
Following this, the FDA issued a stern warning and called for the return of baby food substitutes from the Similac, Elementum and Alker companies.
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"I started shaking this post-trauma."
Spoon with formula (Photo: ShutterStock)
According to a treasurer, her son Avishai got up one morning and the doctors thought the doctors had contracted the virus.
"He started vomiting and I came with him to the clinic when he was two months or less exactly a week old. They sent us to Schneider, did all the tests for him and thought maybe meningitis," she says.
She further recalls that in those days there was no talk of the Remedia affair.
"I continued to feed him the formula and took her to the hospital so they would not give him another substitute."
There is a medical difference between the Remedia affair and the Similac affair.
Similac's compound that comes with a referral from the doctor has a spoiled ingredient while in the Remedia case, there was a missing ingredient in the compound - vitamin B1 which is part of the vitamins that are responsible for the nervous system.
The products suspected of contamination were all manufactured at the same plant, Sturgis, located in Michigan in the United States.
According to the suspicion, salmonella and chronobacter bacteria may have been found in them.
The Ministry of Health emphasized that the call for the return of Abbott products only applies to special baby food compounds sold by pharmacists only.
"These compounds are intended for special medical conditions, and are not common off-the-shelf products," he said.
This is an initiated return of 5 production series in Israel, which include up to about 1000 products.
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