No matter how mothers be protected from various viruses, diseases and drafts, avoid making up with increasing temperature rarely anyone. But if earlier in such cases, breastfeeding was stopped, and the mother began to be treated, reducing his contacts with the baby, now there is no such practice, and doctors have introduced many positive trends.
So why does the temperature of breastfeeding appear and, which methods of its treatment are allowed?
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Causes of heat
The temperature in breastfeeding may be caused by such reasons as:
- ORZ, ARVI
- mastitis, Milk Stress
- poisoning
- inflammatory processes of different nature, infection
First of all, you need to identify the reason why the heat appeared. Each disease is accompanied by their symptoms.
- So, ORVI satellites are runny nose, weakness, cough, sore throat, etc.
- Milk stagnation is manifested by a painful breast seal, skin hyperemia
- When mastitis, the temperature jumps up to 39-40 degrees, strong redness at the seal site, while pressing the chest remains dents
- Poisoning is characterized by vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other
The diagnosis should be confirmed by a doctor who must pick up the method of treatment and medicine, taking into account the fact that the patient is a nursing mother.
Medicines, respectively, should not have contraindications to the use of a nursing woman.
The heat with breastfeeding is not able to harm the baby. On the contrary, the mother with breast milk transmits the child to the antibodies that fight the disease and produce immunity.
In addition, in the case when the temperature in breastfeeding is caused by mastitis or congestion of milk, it is the feeding process that is an important therapeutic method.
Causes of heat
How to feed baby breasts when taking medicines?
If, to combat the cause of the disease that caused heat for breastfeeding, the doctor still prescribed antibiotics or drugs that were not recommended during breastfeeding, it is necessary to keep in mind the following:
- If the drug time of the drug is several hours, the mother before taking the medication should be milk and with a small spoon or a sterile syringe (without a needle!) Feed the baby
- Having adopted the medicine, the mother is needed in a few hours when the medicine actively operates, from both breasts to see the milk and pour it out. It is impossible to give a child to the child!
- Wait another hour and only then you can feed the crumbling breast
- If the treatment takes a few days, then the child needs to be fed with milk, written in advance, or to switch to the dairy mixture.
- Mother lactation must be supported, periodically grinding milk
- For feeding a baby, a bottle does not need to be used, otherwise the child will refuse to suck the maternal breast at all
How to shoot down the temperature?
How to shoot down the temperature?
Up to 38.5 degrees should not be shot down. But with very high temperatures with breastfeeding, you need to fight.
It is recommended that the use of lowering temperatures of preparations - paracetamol, nurofen and their analogues.
These drugs are shown to use with GW and have minimal side effects.
How to treat a nursing mom?
The use of paracetamol-based candles, ibuprofen has its advantage in the fact that active substances do not fall into breast milk.
The nursing mother should drink more fluid: teas, fruit, ordinary water, both with a cold and when mastitis.
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