In the hot season, you need to make sure that your food is fresh. In the first days of a child's life, observe the diet and diet, as well as recommendations for the quality of foods most carefully.
There are cases when the foods that a woman takes for food, cause allergic reactions in her baby. Symptoms of an allergy that may appear in a baby during breastfeeding are not only redness and rashes on the skin. Some products cause allergies, which are manifested in the fact that the child's chair becomes greenish, diaper rash may appear (even if you take good care of the baby's skin), crusts on the head, the baby worries, screams and regurgitates 10-20 minutes after feeding.
It is necessary to find out which products cause allergy during breastfeeding, and temporarily do not eat them. You can try to eat allergenic foods again in no less than a month. Start with a small amount, and if the allergy manifests itself again, stop eating this product again for at least a month.
Determine which products will cause allergy in breastfeeding, and which are not, sometimes it is not easy. In practice, almost any product that takes in food mom, can cause allergic reactions in the child. More often, allergies are caused by citrus fruits, berries, chocolate, milk, eggs, sometimes meat. When breastfeeding, attention should be paid to the ecological cleanliness of the products used, since some chemical food additives are most likely to cause allergy.
The likelihood of allergies in a child increases if an allergy to a given (or other) product affects one of his parents. From the first days of feeding it is necessary to try to exclude products that cause allergy in the mother or father of the child, as well as potential allergens (citrus and sweets). Begin to take them for food can be no earlier than 2 months after childbirth. Products are also introduced in small quantities and one at a time. In the first two months after the birth of the child, it is better for the mother to refrain from consuming any kinds of sausage, smoked products, coffee, cocoa and chocolate, it is better to drink tea with herbal tea. From vegetables the most allergenic properties are possessed by tomatoes. Many yellow vegetables, such as carrots or pumpkins, also sometimes cause allergies. In addition to citrus, with breastfeeding, allergies can cause bananas, grapes, raspberries and strawberries.
Some children with breastfeeding simply react poorly to some of the foods in their mother's diet. At the same time there is bloating, constipation, frequent regurgitation. Reception of such products should also be discontinued in accordance with the recommendations for the intake of allergenic products.
Nevertheless, you should eat normally. If you have a healthy baby, there is no need to worry. With any suspicion of an allergy, it is better to see a pediatrician.
You can eat while you are feeding your baby just like you did during pregnancy. Food should be rich in proteins and vitamins, and the consumption of fats and carbohydrates is limited. It is necessary to eat quite a lot and often. As often as you want. Usually women notice a decrease in appetite in the first two weeks after childbirth, this is a normal phenomenon that quickly passes.
An approximate diet can be calculated using the data on your weight. For every kilogram of your weight, the food you eat should contain 2 grams of protein. The best source of protein for a nursing mother is animal food. On the day, the nursing mother should eat up to 200 grams of low-fat meat or fish, a liter of milk or sour-milk products, up to 150 grams of cottage cheese. When allergic to milk, which is used by the mother's food, it is completely replaced by sour-milk products. If you take milk in a rural area, the allergy may be caused by the hormones of the animal from which the milk is taken. In this case, you can try to take milk in another place or, for example, not cow, but goat. In any case, sour-milk products are preferable.
The appearance of allergies is often associated with the presence in the food of a large number of carbohydrates, in the form of sucrose, which is difficult to digest by the child's organism, and starch. It is better if you exclude from the supply of sweet muffin, and the bread will be black, cooked from the flour of coarse grinding.
Fruits and fresh herbs are a source of vitamins. However, some fruits are difficult to digest. To such, for example, are pears, melons. Care must be taken also to those fruits and berries, of which we spoke above. To start eating fruits, you need a little, slices, first peeled.