Tips for catching a cold during breastfeeding

Catching a cold during breastfeeding is the situation that mothers least want to encounter! Being sick itself is uncomfortable, and taking cold medicine during breastfeeding may affect the quality of breast milk, which is not good for the baby; but if you don’t take the medicine, you may be afraid of passing the cold to the baby. Some breastfeeding mothers, for the sake of their baby’s health, are too scared to breastfeed their babies if they have a cold.

What are some tips for catching a cold while breastfeeding?

1. Drink more brown sugar ginger water

How to boil water with ginger, red dates and brown sugar. Cut the ginger into four or five slices, slightly thicker, and 4-5 dried red dates. After peeling the dates, put them in a bowl of water, add cold water into the pot, bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat, add appropriate amount of old brown sugar, cook for about 15 minutes, and drink it after turning the pot upside down.

Ginger slices are used to replenish deficiency, mainly to dispel cold symptoms, and are mostly used to treat mild colds. Boil the soup with brown sugar and drink it while it is hot. It usually causes sweating and can also be used as a medicine to prevent influenza.

2. Foot bath

Washing feet with warm water can dredge the liver meridian, spleen meridian, spleen meridian, bladder meridian and other important meridians of the body, dredge the meridians, and promote blood warmth and smooth circulation, so fever and cold will certainly heal faster. Every time I soak my feet in hot water, I feel warm and comfortable all over, and I often feel hungry! This is because soaking feet accelerates blood circulation and metabolism, improves digestion and absorption capacity, so of course the stomach feels hungry.

3. Enhance physical fitness

Another good way to enhance resistance is to strengthen your physical fitness. If you run for 40 minutes a day, or walk for more than an hour, and persist for a week, your health will be significantly improved. Because exercise can accelerate blood circulation and metabolism, it can quickly expel influenza viruses, improve the body's various functions, and accelerate recovery from fever and cold.

Sometimes our internal body is like a ball of turbid water, lifeless, but shaking it can clear out the turbid water and make the body recover stronger. During the New Year, I didn't control my diet and didn't keep exercising. Not only did I gain weight, but I also felt heavy, sleepy, weak, and listless. I felt sleepy when sitting in front of the computer. So I started leg stretching exercises, stretching for more than half an hour every morning. In less than a week, I found that my flabby body had become noticeably thinner, I walked more happily, felt much more energetic, and was no longer so sleepy.

Mothers can also choose "quiet" exercise, such as stretching every day, which can help to recover quickly from fever and cold.

4. Improve nutritional content

Most people will recover from a cold or fever in five to seven days. If you have a cold and fever but it never gets better, it means that your body is weak and you need to strengthen your resistance and increase your nutrition. To improve nutrition, it is not chicken, duck, fish and meat, but a reasonable diet, supplement high-quality protein, meat, milk, eggs, beans, eat more seasonal vegetables, eat beans, and eat more moist and hot foods. During the period when mothers have a fever or a cold, their appetite is not very good. Some mothers only eat a few bites of rice for each meal, or just drink some rice porridge. Without adequate nutritional support, it will be difficult to recover from a cold. Therefore, you must eat well. Even if you have no appetite, try to eat more to increase your nutrition.