A nursing mother is ill and can only be described as [worried].
Can you take medicine if you have a cold and fever? Is it safe to use what medicine?
Does it matter if you have diarrhea and take some antidiarrheal?
The nipple is broken, can you apply medicine? Can we continue to breastfeed?
First of all, it should be clear that it is not advisable to stop breast milk after taking medicine or to insist on not taking medicine for feeding.
Breastfeeding mothers can also take medicine. The key is to see how to use what medicine and how to use it. Today we will talk about the use of medicine by breastfeeding mothers.
Have a cold and fever, wait a minute
Viral colds do not need antiviral drugs and can heal themselves in about a week.
Mom can also take some drugs to improve symptoms, such as ibuprofen or Tylenol to cool down fever.
Bacterial colds require antibiotics. Penicillin or cephalosporins can be selected without allergy. These are safe drugs during lactation and can be used continuously.
Worried about catching a cold to your baby, you can wash your hands carefully before breast-feeding and wear a mask when breast-feeding.
Diarrhea, diarrhea, can take medicine
Diarrhea drugs mainly work in the intestinal tract and seldom enter the blood, so they seldom enter milk and can be used safely.
For example, montmorillonite powder can be used in severe diarrhea to improve diarrhea symptoms.
The nipple is broken. After applying the medicine and washing it, you can continue to feed it.
Mupirocin ointment can be used to prevent infection, or miconazole and clotrimazole used for external use during breast eczema during lactation are all safe drugs during lactation.
It should be noted that the ointment is used after one pro-feeding, and the normal breast feeding can be carried out when the water is scrubbed clean before the next breast feeding.
How to use drugs safely during lactation depends on these four principles first.
1. Judge the drug safety level
Do not take proprietary Chinese medicines with unclear curative effect or lack of safety research during lactation.
The risk levels of drug effects on lactation are divided into five levels: L1 ~ L5: [1]
L1 and L2 grade drugs are generally believed to have little effect on milk and do not affect the continuation of breast feeding.
The drugs for several common diseases mentioned above all belong to L1 and L2 levels.
2. See clearly the ingredients of the medicine
Try to choose single-component drugs to avoid compound preparations.
Compound preparations, such as compound cold medicines, have complicated effects on lactation due to their large number of ingredients, so it is better not to use them during lactation.
3. Choose the medication method
On the premise of not affecting the curative effect, it should be preferred: external medicine > oral medicine > intravenous medicine to reduce the impact on milk.
4. Pay attention to the medication time
If you have already chosen a drug with a high safety level or are still afraid of adverse reactions, you can choose to avoid feeding when the blood drug concentration is the highest, and you can take the drug after one parent feeding or after the baby enters a long sleep at night.
During breast-feeding, when a mother is ill, she does not need to carry it hard. Only by following the doctor’s advice and using the right medicine can she be good and her baby be good.