What to do if you have a cold and low milk supply during breastfeeding

If mothers get sick during breastfeeding, their breast milk may decrease. Some mothers find that their breast milk decreases significantly after a cold, which directly affects the feeding of their babies, but they don’t know how to increase their breast milk. Below I will explain to you what to do if you catch a cold during breastfeeding and your breast milk becomes less and less.

What should I do if I catch a cold during breastfeeding and my breast milk is decreasing?

In clinical medicine, some patients who have just given birth have a fever, especially a high fever, which is usually accompanied by a decrease in breast milk. The reasons for this are mainly the following: The first is that when you have a fever, the fever will cause nervous system symptoms and affect the body's hormone secretion, which will reduce the amount of milk secretion. The second level is that in clinical medicine, patients with fever and colds all have fever. When they have fever, some patients will have a lot of fluid outflow and sweat, which will reduce the blood flow of the body and thus reduce the amount of milk secretion.

The third aspect is the reduction in the patient's nutritional level. When suffering from a cold, the patient usually suffers from gastrointestinal symptoms, such as anorexia, nausea, vomiting, etc. If they refuse to eat, they will have less nutritional intake and their own milk production will also be reduced. Therefore, this is the main reason for the decrease in drinking water after a cold. In order to increase appetite, the clinician should first give the patient an infusion. Be sure to drink more saline solution, replenish the patient's electrolyte solution, stabilize the extracellular fluid, and ensure adequate blood flow. This is the first point.

The second point is to actively provide patients with fever-reducing treatment. The third point is to improve the nutritional content. If your digestive tract can bear the cold, you should eat more porridge that is easy to digest and absorb. This will help replenish the body's energy and nutrients, and also help increase milk production. Finally, the patient should be given antiviral treatment, because some patients with colds need antiviral treatment, and even if the patient with colds has enough appetite, clinical medicine does not recommend breastfeeding, because such patients can easily infect the cold to the child, and when the patient has a cold, there are some viral antigens in the breast milk, which is not good for the health of the child. Therefore, it is recommended to breastfeed first.