DIY baby formula?

Pol to families: Just make your own!

Amid a nationwide baby formula shortage and price gouging from private online sellers, a congressional candidate suggested parents make their own, challenging federal rules and countless doctors who say homemade concoctions can harm infants.

“Who cares if the [Food and Drug Administration] says don’t make your own formula — They aren’t doing anything to fix the formula shortage! And — our babies need quality formulas,” tweeted Liz Joy, the sole Republican running in the upstate New York Capital District race.

The FDA says homemade formula can be easily contaminated and not include critical nutrients growing infants need.

Joy, a 53-year-old mother and grandmother, said she’s never had to make her own formula but sympathizes with the droves of parents who can’t breastfeed or find products such as Enfamil or Similac on store shelves.

“Mothers have to feed their babies, and they don’t have time to wait for our government a week from now to sit down and have a committee hearing on what they should do,” she told The Post.

The recipe Joy promoted came from the parents blog wehavekids.com, and listed the ingredients as evaporated whole milk, water and granulated sugar or Karo syrup.

Homemade formula has been around for generations, but medical experts say the makeshift meals aren’t good options.

“With homemade formula, if you put too much nutrients in, that can harm a baby’s kidneys and liver,” said Dr. Jayne Charlamb, director of Breast Health and Breastfeeding Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. “There could also be too little iron, too little calcium, too little protein.”

Charlamb said the best substitute is donor milk from a milk bank, and that formula feeding can stop after one year.

The countrywide baby formula shortage took shape when Abbott Nutrition halted production after recalling products because two infants had died from bacterial infections.