Lactoferrin pacifier makes babies healthier

I read at a parenting magazine that babies touch their mucous membranes approaching 100 times an hour, that as a result they are particularly transmissive of bacteria. I think a lactoferrin releasing pacifier would slightly vary the composition of saliva such that it was measurably less transmissive of bacteria.

Lactoferrin ( link) is a protein humans as well as other organisms produce that sequesters metal ions notably iron, it reduces the growth of bacteria as a result of absorbing Iron as a nutrient. Various published sources link lactoferrin to reduced bacterial amount.

While a lactoferrin releasing pacifier fulfills the .5b technology requirements I think a better approach would be to engineer the streptococcus mutans plaque or other bacteria of the mouth to make lactoferrin thus giving a continuous supply.

Now there are those that will suggests all kinds of things like lactoferrin resistant bacteria coming into being, yet from a management perspective it has been shown that agricultural creatures can have their areas cleaned, administered antibiotics, producing reduced disease, on purpose, even though the bacteria are adaptable. So even though there is media that says "They'll just adapt anyway, agriculture proves that it is possible to reduce or manage the infectivity of surroundings. I think making babies weller, more often is a very valuable thing as I think they actually exist as feeling persons.