Smoking during breastfeeding is actually not harmful

Experts have found that breastfeeding mothers who smoke or inhale second-hand smoke have less milk secretion reflexes, lower milk quality, and are more likely to wean prematurely. Moreover, the content of tobacco tar in their breast milk is nearly 2-3 times higher than that in normal mothers' breast milk. This also means that the baby may not only inhale toxic gases, but also "drink poison".

Prolactin can regulate milk secretion, while tobacco will reduce the prolactin level in the mother's body, reduce milk secretion, and prevent the baby from getting enough breast milk. In addition, if the mother smokes during breastfeeding, it will cause the baby to often have "abdominal colic".

The thick smoke from tobacco will deprive the baby of CO2, which in turn affects the growth and development of the respiratory center in the brain. In the case of long-term hypoxia, the human body compensates by continuously producing "diphosphoglycerate" to increase CO2 transport. Babies who grow up in this kind of environment are more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, asthma, otitis media, bronchitis, sinusitis, etc.

High-density cholesterol (HDL) can prevent heart disease. Studies have shown that babies whose father, mother or both smoke have lower levels of this type of cholesterol, causing the toxins in tobacco to affect the automatic regulation of the heartbeat.

The toxins contained in the thick smoke produced by burning tobacco have an irritating effect on the baby's middle ear mucosa, which can increase and thicken the mucus secreted in the middle ear, cause obstruction of the Eustachian tube, and thus cause fluid accumulation in the middle ear and cause otitis media. Over time, the eardrum may become perforated, thickened, adhered, or filled with material, causing hearing loss and eventually conductive hearing loss. If a breastfeeding mother smokes, the thick smoke in the air will make it difficult for the baby to breathe, and the incidence of neonatal respiratory syndrome is much higher.