Can women have wisdom teeth removed during breastfeeding?

It is also quite painful for women to experience wisdom tooth pain during breastfeeding, because at this time, since they are breastfeeding, they naturally cannot use medications indiscriminately, because many medications will be absorbed into the breast milk through the body and affect the health of the fetus.

1. Wisdom teeth are the third molars of humans, which are the eighth teeth counted to the left or right from the first middle front tooth. Due to insufficient jaw bone space, these teeth cannot erupt normally in most cases and become impacted wisdom teeth. As a result, a blind pocket is formed between it and the surrounding gum flaps. Food residues are easily retained in the blind pocket, and it is difficult to clean, which can easily cause bacteria to grow and multiply, stimulating inflammation and suppuration of the gum flaps, forming what is commonly referred to as pericoronitis of wisdom teeth. This disease is more likely to occur especially when a person's resistance is reduced. According to your description, you are suffering from pericoronitis of wisdom teeth. For confirmed impacted wisdom teeth, in most cases they should be removed as soon as possible when inflammation is not obvious.

2. As for the use of anesthetics during tooth extraction or anti-inflammatory drugs after tooth extraction, they will definitely affect breastfeeding.

3. First of all, anesthetics and anti-inflammatory drugs will enter the breast milk to a greater or lesser extent, causing breastfeeding babies to passively take drugs. Considering that many organs of breastfeeding infants are in a period of rapid growth and development, they are very sensitive to many drugs and have low tolerance. In particular, the liver and kidneys of infants are not yet fully developed, their liver and kidney functions are not strong, and they excrete drugs slowly. If the drugs stay in the body for a long time, they are likely to damage the organs.

4. Secondly, the concentrations of different drugs entering breast milk through the plasma-milk barrier are different. Fat-soluble drugs can easily enter breast milk and thus affect breastfeeding infants. For example, painkillers commonly used after tooth extraction can quickly enter breast milk. Tetracyclines can also cause permanent yellowing of young children's teeth. Other drugs rarely enter breast milk but may cause allergic reactions in infants, such as penicillins. Some drugs that do not easily enter breast milk, such as sulfonamides, although in small amounts, may also cause hemolytic anemia in infants due to the weak detoxification ability of the infant's liver. Finally, metronidazole is often used after tooth extraction, but its harm to infants has not been confirmed and should be used with caution.

5. Therefore, if the amount of medication used after tooth extraction is small, the medication time is short, and it is only taken orally instead of intravenously, the amount of medication the baby receives is very limited. If breastfeeding cannot be stopped, breastfeeding should be done under the guidance of a doctor.