What should I do if I perm my hair during breastfeeding?

There are many issues that women need to pay attention to when they are breastfeeding, especially avoiding contact with chemicals. Once these substances enter the mother's body, they may enter the baby's body through breast milk, thus affecting the child's health. Perming your hair doesn’t have much impact under normal circumstances, but you cannot perm your hair during breastfeeding, which I believe many people know. So, what should I do if I perm my hair during breastfeeding?

Some breastfeeding mothers only realize after getting their hair permed during breastfeeding that it is not advisable to perm your hair during this period, as this will have adverse effects on both themselves and their babies.

First of all, we have made clear the harm of perming to the mother herself and the baby, so, avoid letting the baby touch your hair and wash your hair frequently to remove some residual chemicals. Especially, avoid too much contact with your baby one to two weeks after getting your hair done, otherwise it may cause skin allergies in your baby.

In addition to reducing contact, for the sake of the baby's health, it is best not to breastfeed within one month. The mother should also drink plenty of water to dilute and speed up the excretion of toxic substances in the body. Because the baby's organs are still developing and not yet complete, if they inhale chemicals, it will be harmful to the baby's health. During this period of time, mothers have to reluctantly let go of their children.

It is best for breastfeeding mothers not to perm their hair. If they want to perm their hair, they can do so after the baby is 4 months old, and the impact will be relatively smaller.

The dangers of perming during breastfeeding

Hazard 1: It will only aggravate hair loss

Hair loss during breastfeeding is the most headache-inducing thing for new mothers. Many mothers often suffer from postpartum depression because of this. However, hair loss is an inevitable phenomenon during breastfeeding, so there is no need to worry too much. However, perming your hair during breastfeeding will damage the basic hair tissue and may accelerate the extent and scope of hair loss.

Hazard 2: Affecting the baby's health

Newborn babies have delicate skin and very weak resistance. Often after dyeing or perming hair, it may appear inadvertently while taking care of the baby, and the hair may scratch the baby's body, hair, face, etc. These are very likely to cause allergic reactions in the baby. These effects often affect the baby's body, and the severity may cause the baby to need to go to the hospital for lead removal treatment.

Harm three: Affecting mother's health

Breastfeeding mothers have low resistance, and if the perm agent has quality problems, it is likely to cause a series of diseases to the mother. For example, skin allergies, breast cancer, skin cancer and so on. Various tissues of the human body may undergo some changes after childbirth. Just because a person is not allergic to hair perming during pregnancy does not mean that he or she will not be allergic after childbirth, so breastfeeding women must pay attention to this point.

Hazard 4: Toxins enter breast milk

The styling agent used for perming contains Freon, which is harmful to the human body and produces toxins when inhaled. Although it will not directly enter the breast milk and invade the baby's body, the harmful effect of this toxic substance on the young body will definitely be greater than that on the mother's body.

Hazard 5: Causing health concerns

If you choose bad hair dyes for perming your hair during breastfeeding, the chemical ingredients will enter the skin of mothers and babies, which may cause diseases such as skin cancer and breast cancer, and may also cause developmental deformities in the baby.