DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 12 -- THE USE of artificial nipples in feeding children is currently rampant in our society, where most users interpret the situation as going with the current modernity.

But do mothers, parents, or guardians who have embraced it know the harm they can cause to their children?

The best answers came from a nutritionist from the Food and Nutrition Institute (TFNC), Nusura Salim, who listed the harms of using these artificial nipples to feed children.

Among the harms he described are refusing to suck breast milk early and which makes a child lack the proper nutrients required from real breast milk.

She also explains that other harms are that the childs teeth are damaged due to the bottles they use being hard in the ch...