Katie Price is facing backlash once again after sharing a photo of her youngest children Jett, three and Bunny, two, drinking juice.

 

In the photo, the little ones are enjoying their juice from bottles, rather than cups which are normally recommended for children of their age.

 

After Katie posted the photo with the caption “Breakfast time”, some fans were concerned about the children drinking the juice from bottles.

 

“Juice in a bottle!!! Don't you care about their teeth?”, one comment read, while another asked: “Surely they should be drinking from a cup by now.”

 

“Should they not be drinking from cups?” questioned another. 

 

 

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Drinking a sugary drink, even a fruit juice which contains natural sugars, from a bottle can pose a risk to young children’s teeth.

 

According to NHS guidelines, you should begin weaning a baby off a bottle at six months and by the age of one year, you ought to swap a bottle for a cup. After this age, it could be difficult to wean your child off a bottle as they will have grown accustomed to sucking on it for comfort.

 

The NHS warn that “Drinks flow very slowly through a teat which means that children spend a lot of time with the teat in their mouth. Comfort sucking on sweetened drinks is the biggest cause of tooth decay in young children.”

 

It’s a timely warning as earlier this year, it was revealed that children as young as 12 months are having their teeth extracted.

 


Over 9,000 children under the age of four have had a tooth extraction in the last year, and 47 of them were babies under a year old, according to The Mirror.

 

Extractions are up 24 percent in this age group from 2006, with over 34,000 extractions being carried out on kids aged nine and under.

 

The increase in the number of extractions has been linked to increasing sugar consumption. 

 

It’s the second controversy Katie has found herself involved in this week.

 

Earlier this week, she used a racial slur on This Morning when describing the online bullying her eldest son had been subject to.

 

Despite being asked not to use the word by host Phillip Schofield, Katie repeated the slur, saying she was only repeating what had been said about her son.

 

A shocked Phillip responded saying: "It is deeply, deeply offensive. And people will be offended that you've said that." 

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