Can lactating mothers with cold and cold still be able to breastfeed

Can the baby still breastfeed if he has a cold during breastfeeding?

After giving birth, many new mothers have to start breastfeeding their children, but due to the weak resistance during lactation, mothers will catch a cold if they are not careful. Should I breastfeed my baby at this time? If you accidentally pass on a cold to your child, it is not good, but it seems that it is not good for your baby not to drink breast milk.

New mothers seem to be caught in such a dilemma, so can they breastfeed their children if they catch a cold during breastfeeding?

In fact, mothers can breastfeed their babies as long as they do not take medicine after catching a cold during breastfeeding. Because before you show the symptoms of a cold, your baby has already been exposed to the cold virus through the milk, but at the same time the baby has also acquired antibodies to the virus in breast milk.

But even so, it doesn't mean that cold viruses won't enter your baby's body in other ways. Therefore, mothers with colds should pay special attention not to exhale to the baby, and do not kiss the baby, it is best to wear a mask to prevent the virus from entering the baby's body through saliva, causing the baby to catch a cold.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the mother rests more and drinks some cold powder or banlan root powder, the cold can get better quickly. However, if the situation is serious and you want to take cold medicine, you need to clearly tell the doctor that you are breastfeeding, so that the doctor can prescribe the right medicine, so that the prescription will not affect the secretion of milk, and can also avoid the drug ingredients in the cold medicine from entering the baby's body to affect the baby.

Therefore, it is possible to breastfeed the child with a cold during breastfeeding, but wear a mask when feeding, try not to hold the baby, and even if you want to hug, you must wash your hands to prevent the cold virus from invading the baby, but if you have fever symptoms, you can't breastfeed. Babies have just come into the world, and it is the nature of every mother to take care of them.

Breastfeeding colds can be breastfed as appropriate, colds are generally transmitted through air droplets, breast milk will not be infected, pay attention to ventilation during the cold, wash hands frequently, avoid infection to children through coughing and sneezing, you can take some small medicines **cold, banlangen granules, double coptis oral liquid, if there is a bacterial infection, you can drink cefixime, azithromycin and other drugs, it has no big impact on infants and young children, sore throat can be used fat sea, chrysanthemum tea drink, pay attention to rest.

Can't feed anymore, because you now have to take anti-inflammatory drugs, and cold medicine has a certain amount of antibiotics, if you don't stop feeding the baby, these drugs will enter the baby's body with the milk, and have a certain impact on the baby, you can give the baby milk powder at this time, and wait for a week after the illness is well in feeding the baby.

Breastfeeding mothers with cold and cold can still breastfeed. But since you have a cold and wind, you should boil some hot brown sugar ginger water to drink first, and ensure that you have enough sleep. Colds have a lot to do with lack of sleep.

That's okay, as long as the mother doesn't take antibiotics or other drugs, she can breastfeed.

Colds are also divided into wind-chill colds and wind-heat colds, the former is generally easy to appear in cold weather, such as autumn and winter; The latter is more common when the weather is hotter, such as in summer. The nature of colds is different, and taking medicine also requires different attention. Let's talk about what medicine you can take if you have a cold during breastfeeding.

Some mothers do not have very good immunity, and they are breastfeeding, once they encounter cold air, and they do not take good measures to keep warm, the probability of suffering from wind chill and cold is very high.

The symptoms of wind chill and cold are more obvious, and mothers can make a preliminary diagnosis by themselves, such as fever, headache, itchy throat, cough with phlegm, and a relatively floating pulse.

After getting a cold and wind, you should pay attention to the rules of life and diet, and drink more soup, which is conducive to sweating and getting better faster. In addition, if you suffer from a cold during breastfeeding, and the situation is more serious, you can take some medicines according to the doctor's instructions, such as Banxia Dew, Tongxuanli Lung Pills, Xingsu Cough Syrup, Cold and Heat Clearing Powder, etc.