What should I do if I have gastrointestinal cold during breastfeeding?

The gastrointestinal cold problem is a relatively prevalent disease nowadays. Most people suffer from gastrointestinal cold to a greater or lesser extent. The gastrointestinal cold disease that has the greatest impact is the lactating period, because breastfeeding women need to use most of their body energy on secreting milk, and they must always ensure that the milk does not contain drug ingredients to avoid affecting the baby's development. Let’s take a look at what to do if you have a gastrointestinal cold during breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding mothers must first understand the cause of the fever and prescribe the right medicine. So for different degrees of fever, the chosen response measures are also different.

If a new mother catches a cold or has a fever during breastfeeding, she should not take any medicine indiscriminately to prevent the medicine from having adverse effects on the child. If the fever is not very serious, mothers can treat the fever caused by the cold by drinking hot water and ginger soup. This drink makes the body sweat, thus curing the cold. Secondly, you can consider using physical therapy to reduce the mother's fever - use alcohol to wipe the forehead, palms, soles of feet, and the front and back of the heart, and through the principle of alcohol evaporation, the mother's body temperature will drop.

If a breastfeeding mother has a cold and a fever over 38 degrees, she should not breastfeed her baby. For the sake of her own and her baby's health, it is recommended that the new mother go to the hospital to see a doctor and be sure to indicate that she is breastfeeding and will continue to breastfeed. The doctor will generally provide safe response measures for this special situation.

Experience with fever during breastfeeding:

1. Colds during breastfeeding should be treated actively to avoid infecting the baby. It is recommended to take Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, Vitamin C Yinqiao tablets or cold and cough syrup. Adjust your diet and eat light and easily digestible food. Avoid spicy and irritating foods and drink plenty of water.

2. Boil brown sugar water with ginger and drink it while it is hot. You can feed the baby after the fever goes down. Don’t be too nervous. Remember to wear a mask and don’t breathe towards the baby.