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Cow dung infection, not ‘evil eyes’ kills babies
HEALTH & SCIENCE
During prenatal clinics, pregnant women are taught about the importance of cord care. [Courtesy]
Monica Mueni, a 75-year-old mother of eight, had been using cow dung to cure her children’s umbilical cord after birth for years.
This is just one of the many traditional ways used back in the day to dry the cord stump, but in many cases, it led to neonatal deaths after infections.
Besides cow dung, traditional herbs were also used and within five or seven days, the cord would dry and fall off.
“We would chew some leaves from a certain tree, but when we lacked the leaves, fresh cow dung would be applied,” explained Mueni. “We never left the stump wet or moist, which explains why we never washed our babies for almost a month after birth.”