Can I breastfeed if I have hypothyroidism?

Generally speaking, if a mother has any discomfort, it will be passed on to the baby through breast milk. As long as you are healthy, you can breastfeed. Mothers with hypothyroidism need to take medication on time. Only when the mother is well can the baby's body be well. You can breastfeed after taking the medicine for a period of time. This way the drug effect will be particularly strong and the harm to the baby will be relatively small. Pay attention to your baby's feelings and seek treatment immediately if he or she feels uncomfortable.

For breastfeeding mothers with hypothyroidism, it is recommended that the medication cannot be stopped. The dosage can be reduced. If the dosage is too large, it will affect the breast milk, and the baby will eat the breast milk containing the medication, so it is necessary to reduce the dosage. You can breastfeed directly after taking the medicine, but some people think it is best to breastfeed three hours after taking the medicine, at which time the drug effect has been metabolized in the body. In addition, as long as the thyroid function is normal, the thyroxine content in breast milk will not be high. So there is no need to worry too much.

Patients with hypothyroidism need to have their thyroid function tested regularly during pregnancy, basically once a month, and adjust the dosage of Euthyrox in time to keep the thyroid hormone level within the normal range or slightly higher, so as to have no major impact on the fetal brain development.

Iodine is the raw material for making thyroid hormones, and seafood is rich in iodine. Patients with hypothyroidism have insufficient thyroid hormone. Eating more seafood can not only promote the synthesis of thyroid hormone, but also soften and disperse nodules, which is helpful in inhibiting thyroid enlargement and nodules. Therefore, patients with hypothyroidism should eat seafood such as oysters, kelp, sea cucumber, shrimp, seaweed, etc.

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Patients with myxedema often have swollen hands and feet and gain weight. Salty food can cause water and sodium retention and aggravate edema. Although patients with hypothyroidism do not need to limit their salt intake as strictly as patients with kidney disease, they should also eat less salty foods such as pickled vegetables.

Choose a safe treatment method without side effects. Experts do not recommend breastfeeding for patients with hypothyroidism. The main reason is that the drugs will be absorbed by the baby through breast milk. Therefore, if you choose a safe treatment method without side effects, this problem will be solved. Since the expectant mother has just given birth and is still very weak, surgical treatment is not reliable; iodine 131 can also cause hypothyroidism in young children; therefore, based on the overall safety and efficacy, the "DCP immune intervention therapy" which is currently more popular among patients is worth recommending. DCP immunointerventional therapy uses modern high-tech nanoparticle technology to extract pure biological factor active drugs, directly target the intervention of thyroid foci, and quickly distribute them in the swollen thyroid follicular cells, so that the drugs are 100% absorbed by the follicular cells of the lesion tissue, control and reduce the blood flow of the swollen thyroid tissue, coagulate the swollen thyroid follicular cells, make them lose their activity, and shrink themselves until they return to normal size. The cure rate is as high as 98%, with the advantages of no surgery, no hospitalization, quick results, no recurrence, and no side effects.