Can a mother with hypothyroidism breastfeed?

Thyroid stimulating hormone is a very important substance in the body and is of great significance to people's health. For example, low thyroid stimulating hormone, which we call hypothyroidism, can have a great impact on women's bodies, cause very adverse harm to pregnancy, cause damage to the intellectual development of the fetus, etc. Let's take a look at whether mothers with hypothyroidism can breastfeed?

You can feed your baby if you have hypothyroidism. There will be no problem with the baby if you take medicine during pregnancy. The baby's own thyroid gland will start working after it is born.

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 I 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.

Note: 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.