The answer is - you can dye your hair while breastfeeding! If there was a need to completely dye your hair or tint the roots, then please, paint. But when coloring the hair, you need to take precautions to minimize harm to your health.
Hair coloring: rules for nursing moms.
1. You should try to dye your hair so that the paint does not get on the scalp. This means that chemicals will not enter the bloodstream and then into breast milk. It is advisable to dye your hair in small strands with a brush.
2. Ammonia and other volatile constituents of dyes are also dangerous for nursing mothers. Their vapors, when inhaled, penetrate the lungs, then into the woman's blood and further into the milk. After coloring the hair, you need to express the first portion of milk before feeding, then you can feed the baby without worrying for his health.
3. It is advisable that the coloring when feeding the baby is carried out by a professional in a hairdresser's or beauty salon, and after dyeing hair on the way home it will be useful to take a longer walk in the fresh air.
4. If you do chemical perm and are used to walking with curls, then replace it with a safe biowatch or modern carving. These curls are harmless, beautiful and not dangerous to health. In addition, for the health and beauty of hair, they are also preferable - the structure of the hair is not destroyed, the hair is replenished with protein, and their appearance improves.
5. If you are going to buy hair dye, then you need to keep in mind that a changed hormonal background can affect the hair color - it can become lighter or darker than normal.
6. If you do not stop worrying about your child's health due to hair coloring, then use natural colors. As natural dyes are used basma, henna, green shell of walnuts, strong infusion of tea, infusion of onion husk. After staining with such dyes, you will get a dark brown and brown hair color, onion husk gives a rusty or golden hue.
- To get a black hair color, you need to take equal parts of basma and henna, and mix. Add hot water to the formation of gruel, apply it to clean hair. Wash off in an hour.
- To get a chestnut hair color, you need to take half a glass of chopped green walnuts, 25 grams of alum (you can buy at a pharmacy), and mix. Add 70 g of vegetable oil and 50 g of water, bring to a boil and cool. Blend the mixture with a brush, then rinse off with warm water after forty minutes.
- To get a golden hair color, you need to prepare an infusion of chamomile: take half a glass of chamomile flowers and pour half a liter of boiling water, wrap and insist an hour. Then strain and rub into clean washed hair. You do not need to wash your hair.
Dear women, take care of yourself and do not get depressed, use natural cosmetics and natural hair dyes. Walk more in the fresh air, rest, use vitamins for nursing mothers. If you look good, it will raise your mood and, therefore, will benefit the child and everyone around.