This newspaper (Text/Reporter Chen Xue Photo/Today's Headlines Free Photo Gallery) Recently, the country has actively adjusted and optimized epidemic prevention measures, and is constantly exploring the path of liberalization, in order to prevent and control the invasion of the new coronavirus through more scientific and reasonable methods.
Faced with new crown , each of us is the person in charge of our own health, so it is particularly important to prevent personal hygiene.
As special groups, can pregnant mothers and mothers continue to breastfeed their babies after being infected with the new coronavirus? Faced with the concerns of many pregnant women, Chen Xiuhua, an obstetric expert from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Maternal and Child Health Hospital (Eighth People's Hospital of the Autonomous Region), answered questions and answered questions for the majority of pregnant women one by one.
Can mother still breastfeed if she is infected with the new coronavirus? The answer is: Yes.
Breast milk is the best source of nutrition for most babies and can prevent many diseases.
According to current research, no new coronavirus was found in his breast milk when his mother was suspected or suffered from the new coronavirus. Therefore, breastfeeding is safe when mothers are infected with the new coronavirus.
But the virus may spread in the baby's mouth when mothers speak, cough or sneeze. Therefore, if breastfeeding is taken, the following precautions must be taken to avoid infection during breastfeeding as much as possible:
1) Wash hands for at least 20 seconds before contacting the child or breast pump, and wear a mask at the same time, avoid talking or coughing during breastfeeding.
2) If you have coughing or sneezing, you need to change your mask immediately.
3) When manual or mechanical milk extraction, cleaning and hygiene must be strictly observed; the breast pump should be disinfected after sucking.
4) It is recommended that moms squeeze out the milk and feed the newborn with a cup or spoon by others (non-infected with the new coronavirus).
5) When the fever temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, it is recommended to suspend breastfeeding.
When infants and young children are suspected of or suffer from the new coronavirus and the mother is not infected, it is recommended that after squeezing out the milk, professional protective staff or novice mothers have undergone professional protective training and feed them with cups or spoons.
However, whether a mother who is suspected or confirmed should choose to breastfeed or feed the milk after being squeezed out, or even does not feed the baby breast milk, it should be respected.
(Editor/Tian Jiang Review/Xia Lijuan)
