Article | Jingma
Less than a month after the release, the circle of friends and WeChat groups are discussing the situation of Yang Yang. As long as you live in big cities, more than half of the people around you have been infected!
Some of these people are breastfeeding mothers. Breastfeeding mothers will encounter such embarrassing situations after they become positive. If they have a fever after becoming positive, will it cause the virus in their milk? Will it affect children? Should I stop breastfeeding temporarily?
Tao Sifeng, a well-known breast doctor, refuted the rumors with mothers on his personal science popularization platform: lactating mothers can breastfeed normally if they have an infection and a fever!
If a lactating mother gets positive and has a fever, it does not mean that there is a virus in the milk. It is good for the mother to continue breastfeeding her child after she gets positive.
Why do doctors recommend that mothers insist on breastfeeding their children even if they have a fever? There are several reasons:
Reason 1: The new coronavirus will not pass through the blood-milk barrier.
That means the mother is infected with the new coronavirus, but the new coronavirus will not enter the mother’s milk. . Giving such milk to the child will not cause the child to be infected with the new coronavirus.
Reason two: There are antibodies in the mother's milk
After the mother's body is infected with the new coronavirus, the body's immunity will fight against the new coronavirus. In the process of fighting against the new coronavirus, the mother's body will also develop a certain immunity.
These immunity will enter the milk through blood circulation . If the baby drinks such milk, it will enhance the body's resistance .
Reason 3: For children who insist on exclusive breastfeeding, if the child suddenly stops breastfeeding, it will affect the child's diet and sleep.
If the mother usually exclusively breastfeeds the child and the child is only three or four months old, and suddenly stops giving the child breast milk, it is very difficult to change the child to milk powder. Feeding difficulties may occur. The child always cries and cannot sleep or eat well, which will affect the child's health.
At this time, mothers and children live in the same room, which can easily cause the children to be infected with the new coronavirus due to poor eating and sleeping, and reduced immunity, because the new coronavirus is transmitted through the respiratory tract!
Therefore, if a mother has a fever after being infected with Yang, as long as she has no major problems, she does not need to go to the hospital. After taking medicine and the fever subsides, she can still continue to feed her child breast milk!
What a mother should avoid if she has a fever and has a fever is to transmit the virus to her child through the respiratory tract. Therefore, recommends that the mother sterilize the breast pump, express the breast milk, and give the expressed breast milk directly to the child.
This will prevent the mother from coming into direct contact with the child. It is recommended that the mother not sleep in the same room with the child and avoid direct contact with the child. This can avoid the child from being infected to the greatest extent.
If a mother has a fever after being infected, she should also pay attention to the following aspects if she insists on breastfeeding
First: Mothers should standardize their medication.
When a mother is masculine, if she wants to prescribe medication, she must ask a pharmacist or doctor that she is breastfeeding.
Second: Mothers should take protective measures
Mothers should take protective measures after becoming infected to prevent their children from being infected.
Be sure to wash your hands and face before feeding each time. It is best to wash the mouth and nose with salt water, put on a mask, then gently wash the breasts, and then feed the child in person. Of course, you can also express the milk for the child to drink.
Third: Mothers should also pay attention to taking in more water in their daily diet.
Mothers should pay attention to taking in more foods with high water content in their daily diet, so as to promote the body's metabolism and reduce fever through sweating.
And when mothers are breastfeeding, their bodies also need more water. Under normal circumstances, breastfeeding mothers need 2,000 ml of water per day, if they have a fever, they need at least 3,000 ml of water per day.
Drink water in small amounts and frequently, so as to maintain the body's needs and provide enough water for breast milk.
If a mother has a fever during the breastfeeding period, her milk supply may be slightly reduced. At this time, she should eat more nutritious food and pay more attention to rest, so that she can resume breastfeeding as soon as possible.
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