If the mother has a cold or pharyngitis, she can breastfeed, but the following aspects should be done:
1. Take medicine treatment, do not carry it, then the mother suffers, and the child is not safe. Many mothers think that not using medicine is the safest way, but in fact, using medicine to control the disease can reduce the infection rate;
2. Medication skills: take the medicine after each feeding, so that there are 3 hours between the two feedings, and the side effects of the drug are minimal;
3. Wear a mask to feed;
4. It is best to let the family take care of the baby at other times than breastfeeding;
5. If the nursing mother has a serious cold and a high fever, she should stop breastfeeding and wait until the condition improves before breastfeeding the baby, but you should also pull out milk regularly to avoid a decrease in milk secretion.
Dietary remedies that can be used when you have a cold
If it is a cold cold, you can choose sweating food, and wind fever cold should be added to clear heat treatment, the following are some dietary remedies for reference.
1. Wind chill and cold
- Green onion white ginger soup: take four pieces of white green onion, five slices of ginger, put it in water and boil for ten minutes, take it hot, suitable for cold and cold in the early stage of cold, manifested as runny nose and white tongue. It also has the same effect by adding green onions and ginger when cooking porridge
- White pepper and white noodles: After boiling the hot noodle soup, add the white onion and pepper noodles, then eat it hot, cover the quilt and cover the sweat, and the cold will be cured immediately.
- Cabbage radish soup: Prepare 250g cabbage heart, 60g white radish, put it in a pot and add water to cook for 10 minutes, take while hot.
- Perilla leaf water: Prepare an appropriate amount of perilla leaves, add to water, and take while hot.
2. Wind and heat cold
Wind fever and cold are manifested as red and swollen throat, nasal discharge and phlegm are yellow, and the tongue is white with yellow. At this time, you can choose cool and detoxifying drugs, such as double jaundice oral liquid. Patients with wind fever and cold should have a light diet, and can eat some fruits with the effect of nourishing, clearing heat and dissolving phlegm, such as pears, melons, loquats, dragon fruit, etc.
3. Other physiotherapy methods
- Hot compress: To treat a cold, you can also use a hot water bottle to put a hot compress on the back to help get rid of the cold, because there are many acupuncture points on the back, and the lungs are in it, which can promote lung qi.
- Massage acupuncture points: temples, Yingxiang points on both sides of the nose, wind pool points behind the ears, large vertebral points at the back of the neck, Zusanli on the legs, etc., massage can relieve cold symptoms.
- In addition to massage, cupping and moxibustion can also be used, all of which have the same effect.
It is important to choose the right medicine for colds during lactation
An important principle of lactation medication is to effectively treat the mother's disease while minimizing the impact of the drug on the baby. Give bottled Four Seasons antiviral mixture, and if penicillin is not allergic, add amoxicillin clavulanate potassium orally.
Drugs prohibited in lactating mothers: quinolone antibiotics, aminoglycoside antibiotics, chloramphenicol, ribavirin, radioisotopes, bromocriptine, cyclosporine, doxorubicin, etc.
Drugs used cautiously by lactating mothers: metronidazole (it is recommended to interrupt breastfeeding for 12-24 hours when using), sulfonamides (newborns and premature infants should be avoided within 5 days of feeding), antifungal drugs (topical drugs are safer), antiviral drugs, thiourea antithyroid drugs, etc.
Allergic diseases - lactating mothers who have allergic diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, etc., can be treated with topical drugs.
Vaginitis – When breastfeeding moms have vaginitis, topical medication is recommended.
The following are some of the medicines that the pharmacists of Hunan Women and Children's Hospital have summarized during lactation, and they are not afraid of being tricked!
What to do if you have a cold during lactation, in addition to choosing some green therapy, lactating mothers should also stay in bed, eat more light diet, drink more water, choose appropriate drugs, and recover their health as soon as possible.
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