Disease and breastfeeding
Unfortunately, not every mother can save her health. Sometimes it happens that when you wake up, you feel a fever, there is a runny nose, a general weakness of the body. If you are a nursing mother and get sick with the flu or cold, is it worth continuing breastfeeding, or should you stop feeding?
First of all, it is important to consult a doctor, no matter how simple and common you do not feel the disease. He will prescribe the right treatment for you, which will harm your child as little as possible. You will in any case continue to contact the child: take him in his arms, calm him when he cries, bathe, etc. Feeding will not increase the risk of infecting your baby. In case of fever in a nursing mother, the baby can continue to breastfeed. Milk is a biologically active liquid and is completely renewed in the breast every two hours. Together with milk, your baby gets antibodies to various diseases. It turns out that breast milk is a kind of medicine against many diseases. However, high fever can promote the disappearance of milk, or reduce it for the duration of the illness.
Today, there is already a huge amount of antibacterial drugs that are compatible with breastfeeding. In the case when the drugs prescribed to you are not compatible with the feeding of the baby, the baby may be weaned from the breast during the treatment. In this case, it is necessary to express the milk five to six times a day. Be sure to wear a gauze bandage, especially at the time of breastfeeding. Make a bandage is at least four layers of gauze. The child should not give medicines, they will be given with mother's milk. Therefore, before using any medications, be sure to consult a doctor. Not in vain many medications have contraindications for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
General recommendations
Any disease brings a huge number of problems to mom, who has a small child in her arms. What to do in order not to infect a child, if you are sick? Try to isolate the child from a sick family member. But it is not always possible to take such measures. Very often the child continues to contact a family member who is sick. In this case, be sure to use a gauze dressing when communicating with the child. Here again we remind you of the need to use gauze dressings in everyday life. Of course, the child is unlikely to be delighted with his beloved parents wearing a mask, so try to explain to him in a playful form the need for a gauze bandage for parents and for him. You can paint masks with funny muzzles.
If one of the family members is sick, it is advisable that the child sleeps in a separate room. If this is not possible, the child must sleep separately from his parents. It is important to constantly air the apartment. This applies to the winter frosty days. What should I do if my family member gets sick? If the house has a quartz lamp, you can quartze the room twice a day: in the morning, after sleeping, and in the evening, before going to bed. You can use the aroma lamp with pine oils. You can breathe the brewed eucalyptus.
Often remove the child to fresh air. Fresh air, and even more frosty, is very useful, it kills a lot of bacteria. Of course, do not leave the child in the cold. Ventilate rooms in turn. Overheating for a child is as dangerous as hypothermia. The temperature of the room in which the child is located should not be above twenty-two degrees, regardless of whether it is sick or not.
In addition, to strengthen the further immunity of the child, you can begin hardening procedures. They should start gradually. Gradually lower the temperature of the water while swimming to twenty-nine degrees. This will strengthen the immunity of your baby and reduce the likelihood of frequent illnesses in the future.
Do not forget about the wet cleaning of the apartment with the use of disinfectants. Microbes simply love dust. Therefore, try to reduce its presence to a minimum. Always sterilize the dishes from which the child is eating. It is absolutely unacceptable that parents share dishes with the child.
In order not to infect a child, lubricate his nose with oxolin ointment every day. This ointment prevents the emergence and development of bacteria. Do not forget about the asterisk. Drip the baby in the spout saline solutions every twenty minutes for three drops in each nostril. Give the baby more vitamins, both in tablets and natural, to increase its immunity. Try to diversify his diet with fruits and vegetables. Let's have a weak tea with lemon juice. Put slices of garlic and onions in an inaccessible place for the child. Garlic and onions kill a lot of germs, disinfect the room. The smell, of course, is still there. But if the bacteria do not die, they will be weakened for sure. Make yourself and your baby beads from garlic, but so that it would not be accessible to the child. For example, you can sew with a light cloth. If the child is sick, give him more vitamin C, and more fluids. You can add a rose hip syrup to the water. So as not to infect the baby, constantly iron things, and your, and the child.
Medical treatment
There are various medications that help prevent colds. Pay attention to drugs that strengthen immunity. But remember that the appointment of medicines can only be done by a doctor, especially when it comes to your child. Do not risk his health again.
Try to limit the number of visits by your friends and relatives during a potential epidemic. Transfer them to a safer time of the year. With the child as little as possible in public places.