Will being angry affect the quality of breast milk?

When people are angry, a certain amount of toxins will be produced in the body. For breastfeeding women, if they are angry for a long time, some of the toxins formed will enter the child's body through the tissues, bringing many adverse effects on the baby's health. Let us understand together what adverse effects will be brought to milk if breastfeeding mothers are often angry.

Milk is transformed from blood and qi

Our ancestors have accumulated very rich experience in raising children. "Prescriptions for Emergencies Worth a Thousand Gold Pieces" written by Sun Simiao, a great medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, pointed out long ago: "The blood and qi of any wet nurse become milk. The five emotions, good and evil, are all produced by blood and qi. The breastfeeding mother must all have a kind temperament." In layman's terms, a wet nurse's milk is transformed from her blood and qi. The five emotions, good and evil, are all related to the generation of blood and qi. If the yin and yang of a nursing mother are dominant and the circulation of qi and blood is abnormal, the secretion of milk will be affected, and it will even directly affect the healthy growth of the newborn.

Mood swings affect breast milk quality and quantity

The pace of life of modern people is getting faster and faster, and the living and working environment is more tense and noisy. They often encounter various brain-trickling interpersonal relationships to deal with. Many factors cause people's emotions to fluctuate greatly, and wet nurses are no exception. When breastfeeding mothers are angry, anxious, nervous, or tired, they are prone to liver depression and qi stagnation, and even blood stasis, which makes the milk volume less or even discolored. In this case, the baby's heartbeat will speed up after drinking the mother's milk, and the baby will become irritable and restless, even unable to sleep at night, crying and making a fuss, accompanied by symptoms such as digestive disorders.

From the perspective of Western medicine, when a mother is under too much stress and is in a irritable mood, her body is in an emergency state, adrenaline secretion increases, and milk secretion will also be affected. When people are angry, "toxins" may be produced in their bodies. These "toxins" may even change the color of the water or even form precipitation. Based on this experiment, experts remind that if a breastfeeding mother feeds her baby when she is angry or just after being angry, the baby may inhale milk containing "toxins". In addition, various emotional ups and downs often affect the activity of the cerebral cortex of breastfeeding mothers, which may inhibit the secretion of prolactin and cause the mother to lack milk.

Therefore, breastfeeding women should try their best to adjust their emotions. However, if they feel depressed or angry for a long time, it is best to consume the energy in the body through normal channels, such as running, fencing and other exercises, so as to relieve emotions and minimize the adverse effects on the baby's body.