Breast milk, and indeed breastfeeding, is an ideal tool for the baby in terms of preventing viral and colds. Only therefore, if the mother suddenly became ill, she needs to be calmly treated with those drugs that will help her and not harm a small child. A cold or a viral disease brings a lot of problems to a nursing mother, not only does the temperature rise during breastfeeding with such diseases, but symptoms like cough, runny nose and sore throat also appear. The very first problem is the treatment itself, because most often mothers do not even know what they can take and what not. And it happens, it comes to the point that mommy lies at a temperature of about forty, just because she is afraid to drink an antipyretic.
What can I drink when the temperature suddenly rises while breastfeeding? First of all, the ideal remedies are folk remedies - inhalations, steam baths, decoctions of various medicinal plants. If the temperature during breastfeeding has risen above 38 degrees, it can be brought down with paracetamol-containing drugs. They are allowed during breastfeeding and will not harm a baby a bit, only if their temperature is also slightly reduced, but this moment can be prevented very quickly with warm clothes.
When a nursing woman is sick, she sweats very much, not only does she need to replenish the reserves of her lost fluid, but she also needs water to form breast milk. Therefore, fluids need to be consumed as much as possible and applied to the baby more often, and especially at night. To make it easier for a sick mother, you can put the baby next to him on the bed, but not under your blanket and after feeding try to move away from the baby, at least thirty centimeters. This is required not because you can infect a small child, but so that the baby does not sweat from your heat.
For the complex treatment of colds in nursing mothers, methods such as physiotherapy, restorative agents, homeopathic remedies, aromatherapy are used. If the nursing mother has a very high fever during breastfeeding, she urgently needs to call an ambulance team. It is not necessary to go to the hospital and leave the baby, treatment in a hospital is required only in very serious cases, and even acute pyelonephritis in a nursing mother can be treated on an outpatient basis, that is, at home.
If a woman is sick with a viral disease, even if it is a simple cold, she should never stop feeding her baby. In any case, without breast milk, the baby will become even more vulnerable, since all these diseases are transmitted through the air. If the temperature during feeding does not drop during the day, when taking antipyretics, you need to call a doctor at home and carry out treatment as prescribed by the doctor.
Infectious diseases, of course, are dangerous for a nursing mother and not only if the temperature rises when breastfeeding, but also the risk of complications with self-treatment. If the doctor you called prescribed antibiotics for you - this is not a reason to refuse to breastfeed during treatment, now there are antibiotics that are compatible with breastfeeding and do no harm to the baby, it is enough to drink biologics only when taking the medicine. In order for the doctor to prescribe just such antibiotics for you, it is necessary to warn him in advance that you are breast-feeding. A nursing mother needs to know only a few rules that must be used when taking antibiotics:
- In order for a minimum of harmful substances to enter breast milk, the drug must be taken directly during feeding or immediately after it;
- It is necessary to take biological products during the entire course of treatment, as well as two weeks after it;
- And also, if possible, use herbal preparations with antibiotics.