Can I get injections during breastfeeding?

Under normal circumstances, if a breastfeeding woman has a fever, she cannot breastfeed. If she wants to continue breastfeeding, it is best to wait 12 hours after the injection and medication before feeding the baby. Generally, if you have a fever during breastfeeding, you need to be treated with antibiotics. Therefore, you need to avoid feeding the baby after taking antibiotics. If you have a fever during breastfeeding, you must pay more attention to rest, drink more water, and eat a light diet.

If it is a common cold or fever, and if the fever is not high and the baby is not physically exhausted, the mother can still breastfeed the baby with confidence. But be sure to drink more water to prevent the milk from concentrating and causing diarrhea in your child. Some new mothers who have a cold or fever will experience a decrease in milk supply. In this case, they can feed their babies more often, and their milk supply will return to normal after a few days. If the cold is very serious, with persistent high fever and great physical exhaustion, the mother should stop breastfeeding, express and boil the milk and feed it to the child, or let the child eat formula milk for a period of time. If the mother needs to take medicine or injections, she has to stop breastfeeding.

If you catch a cold while breastfeeding and develop severe symptoms such as severe cough, chest tightness, fever, etc., it is best to go to the hospital for treatment in time. In this case, active treatment is the best method. You can get intravenous injections, but you must tell the doctor that you are breastfeeding to avoid harm to the baby with medication. Remember to drink plenty of water during this period.

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If the cold during breastfeeding only has mild symptoms, such as sneezing, runny nose, and mild cough, it is not recommended to use any medication for treatment, and injections are best not to do so. No special treatment is required. As long as you pay attention to rest and drink plenty of water, you will recover quickly.

Daily treatment for colds during breastfeeding

1. When your throat becomes itchy and painful at the beginning of a cold, immediately gargle and rinse your mouth and throat with concentrated salt water every 10 minutes. It will be effective after more than 10 times.

2. Drinking chicken soup can relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose during a cold, and it is also effective in clearing respiratory viruses. Drinking chicken soup regularly can enhance the body's natural resistance and prevent the occurrence of colds.

3. Pour hot water at about 42°C into a thermos teacup. People with a cold should put their mouth and nose into the mouth of the teacup and continuously inhale the hot steam, three times a day.

4. If you have a cough, you can beat an egg, add a small amount of white sugar and ginger juice, and take it 2-3 times with half a cup of boiling water to stop the cough.

5. When you first catch a cold and start to feel itchy nose and throat, doing the following exercises 2-3 times will have a better effect.

The method is: stand upright with your feet slightly apart, straighten your neck, raise your head as far as possible, open your eyes wide, stick out your tongue as long as possible, straighten all ten fingers of both hands, and then exert force from the top of your head to your hands and toes until your whole body trembles and makes a continuous "ah" sound, repeat 2-3 times.

Folk remedies for treating colds during breastfeeding

Scallion and ginger for colds

Ingredients: 4 pieces of green onion, 5 slices of ginger.

Preparation method: Put the scallion and ginger into water and boil.

Usage: Drink as tea.

White pepper hot noodle soup for colds

Prescription: Powdered white pepper and appropriate amount of green onion.

Usage: Cook 1 bowl of hot soup noodles, add scallion and pepper powder, mix well, eat while hot, cover yourself with a quilt and lie down, you will recover after sweating.

Efficacy: pungent and warm, dispelling exterior pathogens, eliminating phlegm and detoxifying.

Indications: Colds and flu caused by wind-cold attacking the surface of the body.