 Ew.
June 20, 2009 1:26 PM
Breast Milk Cancer Dad
A daughter who feeds her father her own breast milk says she "doesn't find it strange at all".
That's because he says it's helping him beat cancer.
Georgia Brown, of Bristol, UK, feeds her own son then expresses what's left and drops it off at dad's place just in time for breakfast.
She admits her dad, Tim, is "quite eccentric" and they are a close family.
But before this all gets a bit too creepy to read on, it was actually all Georgia's idea.
She said she researched it on the internet, having watched a TV documentary that investigated the properties of breast milk.
The boost it gives his immune system is having a positive effect on tumors associated with his colon and liver cancer, Tim says.
Which is great, but it's all still a bit... ew.
"It's slightly oungent and oily," he told the Daily Mail.
How it tastes isn't really the point, Tim.
"I have a lactating daughter, so why not take advantage of her?"
Um.
Tim's not the first to try the method, actually. Cancer patients in the US have been onto the breast milk lark for a couple of years, but their preference is to use milk from a milk bank.
Some doctors are convinced it's the reason cancer rates are so low in toddlers.
That and the fact they're not 50-a-day nicotine fiends, or haven't got a mobile phone permanently wired into their brains.
Still, Georgia and her Dad won't hear a word against their alternative treatment, and nothing else was working.
And besides, as she told The Daily Mail: "Not many women can say their dad drinks their breast milk."
And you can't really argue with that.
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