Husband Says Wife Wants to Use Her Breast Milk to ‘Treat’ His Sunburn & He’s Officially Weirded Out

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Many women rave over the power of breast milk, which is how it's earned the name "liquid gold," but one mom's breast milk miracle use has her husband scratching his head. According to the anonymous dad, his wife insisted he try putting breast milk on his sunburn for some much-needed relief, even though he told her that he was sort of weirded out by the treatment. Now he's wondering if he was being too harsh.

The situation started when the burnt dad asked his wife to put aloe vera on his sunburn, but she had another idea about how to treat it.

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In a post that has since been deleted on Reddit, anonymous dad got real about a recent incident involving his breastfeeding wife and a seriously painful bad sunburn.

Although he loves his wife and is proud that she's breastfeeding their 8-week-old daughter, he felt that "mommy forums" had sold her a bill of goods when it comes to the powers of breast milk. "In one of the forums she was told breast milk will heal my sunburn so she said she wanted to put it on my burn instead of aloe," he wrote. "I refused and asked that she just put the aloe on."

But his wife got angry. "She started getting mad and insistent and when I still refused she then accused me of being against breast milk," he continued. But that wasn't the issue. "I just do not want her putting the milk on me. I am not comfortable with it because I want a scientifically backed remedy not something a lot of moms believe in," he added.

The dad later added that his burn looks "almost purple and looks like it will blister," which is perhaps why he isn't willing to place a bet on something that he doesn't believe is scientific.

Now he's wondering if he was too harsh on his wife. Was he completely wrong for disregarding her advice?

Some people online didn't blame the dad for being weirded out.

"Wife and I joked about breast milk a lot, but it does fix a myriad of issues," one commenter wrote. "Even our old-school doctor told us things it works on. Wildly enough it does work on some. BUT I would not want the smell of milk that's gone bad being all over my back and chest. That coating on you will soon within hours smell like a dumpster."

"Just put the aloe on yourself and explain it with her when you’ve both calmed down I think," another commenter added. "It’s not a huge issue."

"You chose wants goes on your body," a third commenter advised. "It's REALLY weird the wife got so defensive about this. Def not worth a fight."

Other people thought the dad should give the liquid gold a try.

"I don't think YTA however it is true that breast milk will heal a sunburn," one commenter wrote. "You can use it for SO many different things such as acne, pink eye, stys, ear infections and various skin irritations. There have even been studies done to show breast milk being used to treat colon cancer patients.

I breastfed three babies and always gave away a few ounces of breast milk to family members to use on themselves and their dogs too!"

"It works. It's fun. You're the one being a baby about a self inflicted wound," another commenter wrote.

A third person commented that the dad was being a tad overdramatic about the whole thing. "You two have swapped spit, gotten genital juice all over each other who knows how many times. Breast milk has to be cleaner than all that."

In the end, the dad later wrote that he ended up going to the hospital and getting burn cream for his sunburn.

"My wife isn't upset at me anymore for not using [breast milk] but she is still claiming it would have worked if I would have been open minded enough to try it," he wrote. "I think a big problem was not just her mommy group but the absurd number of major new publications who have put out stories about this saying it works. The doctors we spoke to about my burn definitely said aloe was the better choice lol."

However, dad does want to reiterate that just because he wasn't down to try the breast milk treatment himself doesn't mean that he isn't completely behind his wife.

"To be 100 percent clear, I love my wife she is my soulmate and even though I do not agree with what she wanted to do, I support her 100 percent and am so lucky to have her as my partner in life," he tells CafeMom.