It will be survival or it will be the need to replace the food that came from his mother with a similar one that led to Tha Sophat, a Cambodian boy of a year and a half, to feed directly on the udders of a cow.
His mother had to leave home to look for work, traveling to Thailand for it. At that time the boy stopped breastfeeding and stayed living with his grandfather.
One day he saw a calf suckling from the cow and it occurred to the child that he could do the same as the calf, also of a cow.
This whole story began the day that a great storm destroyed the home of the child's family, where he lived with his mother. To repair the situation, the mother went to look for work, leaving the 18-month-old child at her grandfather's house.
Then the boy, copying what he had seen a calf do, he approached a cow to suck on her. The grandfather tried to push him away, but seeing that he cried and got angry, he decided to leave him.
This happened in July and the grandfather, before the warnings of the authorities of the country, has explained that in spite of taking two months suckling of a cow "His health is good, he is strong and he has no diarrhea".
The authorities talk about the danger of feeding in this way in the long term and encourage grandfather to do something to end this habit. What man has achieved to date is to reduce a daily intake, which is not much, but something is something.
I don't know what you think of the matter, but the truth is that health authorities are right, because drinking raw milk directly from a cow has a considerable risk, but you also have to keep in mind that this child does not live in Madrid, but in Nokor Pheas, a town more than 100 km from Cambodia, whose safe hygienic and sanitary conditions are far from the ideal we all have.
By the way, I do not know if you have noticed, but I was very funny to see him with the little hands, touching the other udders, as when the children are touching the other nipple of the mother while they breastfeed from one breast.
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