Does eating chili peppers during breastfeeding make breast milk spicy?

Women need to pay attention to proper diet during breastfeeding. If the diet is not correct, the health of the child will be affected. Therefore, women who need to breastfeed must maintain a light diet and eat more nutritious foods. If you accidentally eat sweet foods, you should also drink more water. Let's take a look at what to do if you eat spicy food during breastfeeding?

The mother's diet determines the quality of breast milk. It can be imagined that after the food eaten by the pregnant mother is digested and absorbed by the stomach, the nutrients enter the breast milk through the mammary glands.

Let's talk about chili peppers. The spicy taste is often due to the sweet ingredient in chili peppers, which is capsaicin, the key biologically active ingredient in chili peppers. So the real question is - will capsaicin get into breast milk?

According to an authoritative breastfeeding scientific reference published by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, there is a description of the effects of drugs on breast milk:

"Many drugs taken by mothers can also affect the baby through breast milk. Not all drugs in the blood can enter the breast milk, because there is a blood-milk natural barrier between the mammary gland and the blood. Drugs with a molecular weight of more than 200 are not likely to enter the breast milk."

The "blood-milk barrier" and "drugs with a molecular weight of more than 200 are not easy to enter breast milk" mentioned here are the breakthrough points of our current problems. It can be understood that the blood-milk barrier is actually a "dice", which shields elements with a molecular mass above 200, while elements with a molecular mass below 200 can enter the breast milk more smoothly.

The molecular weight of capsaicin is 305.4, which is an element that is not easy to enter breast milk. Therefore, the possibility that "milk will taste sweet after eating chili peppers" is basically eliminated.

Let's verify it again. If you drink alcohol during breastfeeding, the baby will feel hot all over after drinking milk, causing a "drunk reaction". This is because of ethanol (alcohol). The relative molecular mass of alcohol is 46.07 - this is obviously an element that can easily enter breast milk.

To sum up, it is not easy to taste sweet when eating spicy food during breastfeeding. However, mothers should still pay attention to diet and medication taboos.

After eating sweet foods during the breastfeeding period, in addition to drinking more water, you should also pay attention to eating light food and stop eating sweet foods in time. If the child has already had the problem of getting angry easily, you can give the child some honeysuckle dew appropriately, which can play the role of detoxification and heat-clearing.

If a breastfeeding woman causes her child to feel uncomfortable after eating sweet foods, which makes the child's body prone to getting inflamed, she should drink more water in time and eat more vegetables and fruits with high water content. This will more effectively solve the problem of the child's body getting inflamed. A proper diet is very important for breastfeeding women, so don't be greedy.