Concerned Nigerians Call On NAFDAC To Probe Viral ‘Organic Weight Gain Pap’ For Babies
Nigerians have expressed concern over a weight gain pap for babies being sold by a TikTok user, urging the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC to probe the product.
The TikTok user shared a video of an overweight four-month-old baby girl, claiming she gained weight after being fed the pap.
“The Baby is only four months old. POV: my customer’s baby while using our Baby’s weight gain Pap. Now tell me why haven’t you gotten our products yet,”
she captioned the video.
She also shared another video of a one-year-old, claiming he weighs 47 kg.
“He is currently weighing 47kg. The was last month when I checked. And he is only a year old tho. Our baby’s weight gain pap keeps doing the magic,”
the caption on the video reads.
The review read,
“We are four months. She is doing wonders. People dey gather her; they call her boss baby. Madam, what are you feeding her with? E choke, my baby na celeb everywhere we dey. The joy is heavenly.”
Reposting the videos, some X.com users raised concerns about the potential harm of the product.
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Popular Nigerian health influencer, Dr. Chinonso Egemba, better known as Aproko Doctor, urged NAFDAC to take immediate action. He wrote:
“Dear #NafdacAgency, I’m guessing this is within your purview. No one knows what is inside that pap. Also, this is setting these babies for damage.”
Sharing the videos, #JaceTheJace wrote,
“Can you just imagine this? We need to find a way to stop this person. She took the video off her page; this is the page in question.”
Another X user #Talk2veee questioned the obsession with “chubby babies” and the potential harm of promoting such products. She wrote:
“What’s the obsession with chubby babies? Are slim babies unhealthy?”
Another user #Enini wrote:
“Are these people aware children can get diabetes? Even certain adults don’t weigh that much!!!! This is not healthy!!! Obesity is not healthy and it’s linked with different diseases!
“This is child abuse and child endangerment, this is a crime. These people are loading babies with steroids to fatten them up making them prone to illnesses they’ll have to manage for the rest of their lives. Is there even a child protection agency in Nigeria that isn’t an NGO?”
Another user, #Razoredmanchi, pointed out that the weight measurements used by the seller were confusing and misleading. He wrote,
“Nigerians and confusing KG with lbs, that baby is 47 pounds, which is roughly 21.3 kg, but that’s still too heavy for a child; they should arrest that seller. #NafdacAgency, see ooooooh.
“That’s to tell you how ‘illiterate’ the seller is. Such person that doesn’t even know basic “weight/mass” shouldn’t be making consumables for babies. #NafdacAgency, make una do something.”
#ChineduMpamugo also wrote,
“Having an extremely big infant is not a ‘flex’ as some think. What you need is a healthy child, not an obese one.
“Infant obesity poses a short- and long-term problem, with a risk of chronic diseases later in life. It’s worse when you have to give special products for weight gain.”
#loveanswersall also wrote on X,
“How can a baby be weighing that much? My baby weighed 11 kg, and I was bothered about him being overweight. Now mothers go to any lengths to make their babies grow big.”
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#Queen_Ozioma commented,
“At this point, I believe people who sell this kind of product are using diabolical means to get their customers because no normal person would buy this for their baby.”
