After childbirth, the female body is weakened and susceptible to various diseases. Mom can catch a cold, and then she will have to use medications for treatment. How to be in this situation? Can I feed my baby at temperature? Or should you stop breastfeeding for a while?
Causes of Mother Disease
There are various factors that can affect the health status of a nursing mother. A woman can become ill for several reasons: an exacerbation of a chronic disease, the appearance of an acute bacterial infection or the defeat of an acute viral infection. In any case, the mother will be worried about the question: “Is it possible to feed the baby at a temperature?” Everything will depend on what caused the disease. The cessation of breastfeeding may be due to the fact that the causative agent of the disease can penetrate into breast milk and be passed on to the baby during feeding. In addition, during treatment, a woman may have to take medications that are contraindicated in infants.
Breastfeeding at temperature or not?
A sick mother who feels badly, of course, does not want the baby to become infected from her. But, contrary to the opinion of "knowledgeable" people who advise boiling breast milk or completely stop feeding, stop breastfeeding is not necessary.
After all, when a mother is sick, her child is especially in need of nutritious mother's milk. In addition, cessation of feeding can cause
stagnation of milk and an even greater increase in temperature. Through breastfeeding, the mother provides her child with protection against viral diseases, as antibodies are produced along with it.
How to feed a child at a temperature: milk or a mixture?
If the mother nevertheless decides to temporarily stop breastfeeding, then she will need to express milk about six times a day, otherwise stagnation in the chest may occur, which will lead to an even higher temperature rise and the development of mastitis will begin. Is it possible to feed a child with expressed milk? Of course yes. But no devices and breast pumps will empty the breast as well as the baby does. If a woman nevertheless continues to worry about the question of whether it is possible to feed a baby at a temperature, then it should be noted that no changes in breast milk occur at high temperature indicators, its properties do not change in any way: it does not sour, does not curl and does not changes the taste.
It should also be noted that when boiling milk, many nutrients are destroyed.
Is it possible to feed a child at a temperature and what to do to defeat her?
To reduce the high temperature, paracetamol is allowed, but aspirin should not be used in any case. You can use medicines only if the nursing mother does not tolerate high temperature. For the treatment of viral infections , symptomatic treatment is carried out using inhalers, colds, gargles. All these measures can be carried out with breastfeeding. In addition, to date, a fairly large number of medicines have been released that are allowed to be used by a nursing mother. The right choice of drugs for a woman will help her doctor.