Most drugs are banned forreception during lactation. Almost all drugs are able to penetrate into breast milk. If some do not harm the baby, others can be very dangerous. When a nursing woman gets sick, she needs to show herself to the doctor. Only a doctor can soberly assess all the risks for the baby and the expected benefits for the mother. In accordance with them, and selected therapy.
Runny nose and nasal congestion is a common symptommany infectious diseases. A woman during lactation can not be ignored. After all, if the coryza is not cured, then it can cause complications: sinusitis, otitis, bronchitis. All these pathologies will require more serious medications, and a woman will have to curtail lactation. Do you want to know how to cure a runny nose when breastfeeding (mom)? Then the doctor's advice presented in the article will be useful to you.
How should the catarrh in the thoracicfeeding? Komarovsky (popular children's doctor) in his programs tells that it is important to create comfortable surrounding conditions. It is necessary to regularly ventilate the room where the mother and baby are. If the weather permits, you should walk as often as possible. Rhinitis is not a contraindication to air procedures, unless the woman has other unpleasant symptoms, for example, temperature.
The doctor advises regularly to clean the nasal passages, butdo it one by one. First, one nostril is clamped and the other is cleared, after which the actions occur on the contrary. If Mom blows her nose wrong, then she may have otitis. Doctors recommend breastfeeding women to drink a lot. Treatment of a cold with breastfeeding involves an increase in the fluid intake. You can not eat, but you need to drink a lot. It is water that will help purify the body of toxins and pathogens.
If suddenly a woman has a runny nose (withbreastfeeding), than to treat it? The safest are the following nasal preparations: Aquamaris, Rhinostop, Physiomer, Dolphin, Rhinostop, and so on. They contain a sterile isotonic solution of sea or ocean water. These medicines do not cause negative effects even if swallowed. You can apply them unlimited number of times a day.
Saline solutions are intended for purificationnasal passages, softening of existing crusts, elimination of stuffiness and itching, moistening. If you purchase a product with a sprayer, then it will be convenient to use it: follow the instructions on the package. Also, the salt solution can be prepared independently, adding salt and a little soda to the drinking water. It is permissible to use a solution of sodium chloride.
If the rhinitis has just begun at thoracicfeeding, than to treat it, so as not to get sick more? For the first symptoms of a cold, use approved immunomodulators and antiviral agents. These include "Grippferon", "Genferon", "Nazoferon", "Derinat" and others. All of them contribute to increasing their own immunity and strengthening the body's resistance. Drugs are not addictive. Even if they hit the baby, nothing terrible will happen. All medicines are allowed to use from the first days of life. Some doctors advise that during a cold a mother should have prophylaxis for the baby. For this purpose, these drugs are prescribed for a baby.
Treatment of a cold in breastfeeding will bethe more effective the earlier you start using drugs. So do not wait until it gets worse. Use antiviral medicines approved during lactation, with the first symptoms.
Often the common cold is accompanied by stuffy nose.Edema occurs because of the expansion of blood vessels. Is there any way to help the patient in this case? Yes, there are vasoconstrictive drugs that are allowed during lactation. Doctors advise choosing medicines that do not contain preservatives in their composition. Such drugs are stored for a short time (usually up to three months after the dissection), but they are safer.
Vasoconstrictors can be selected onbased xylometazoline, oxymetazoline or naphazoline. Their trade names are Nazivin, Otritin, Nazol, Sanorin, Naftizin. You can not combine several drugs at once. Please note that many medications with vasoconstrictive effect are available in pediatric and adult dosages. Give preference to the first. Most likely, drugs in low concentration will help you just as well as adult drugs, but they will be less likely to enter the body of a baby with breast milk. Doctors advise not to use such funds for more than three days. Otherwise, addiction may develop.
Treatment of runny nose with breastfeeding sometimesrequires the use of antibacterial drugs. Most often they are necessary when it comes to sinusitis, bacterial sinusitis and rhinitis, as well as complications: bronchitis, tonsillitis, otitis media. Antibiotic drugs can be prescribed in various forms. The most safe means are those for topical application. Doctors prescribe lactating women "Izofru", "Polidex", tampons with "Levomekol" and other antimicrobial compounds.
Less commonly, antibiotics for the common cold are prescribedorally: drugs based on amoxicillin or azithromycin. A lactating woman should know that they inevitably fall into breast milk. But doctors still do not recommend stopping lactation.
Is it possible to treat an allergic rhinitis withbreastfeeding? If a woman is plagued with stuffiness, copious nasal mucus secretion, sneezing, itching, lacrimation, then it is an allergic reaction. To be treated independently in such a case is impossible. It is necessary to visit a doctor and follow his recommendations.
Most antihistamines are notare recommended for use during breastfeeding. But if a woman's condition worsens, then they can not do without them. Usually used steroid drugs and antihistamine formulations of the second generation. Among them we can distinguish "Zirtek", "Cetrin", "Claritin". For nasal administration, "Avamis" and "Nazonex" are prescribed. In mild cases, "Vibrocil" is prescribed, but it can not be used for more than one week without interruption.
If the patient is afraid to use medicinalmeans, it can do with grandmother's recipes. But this does not save her from going to the doctor. Reception of any folk remedies should also be agreed with the doctor. If the rhinitis during breastfeeding tortures, the treatment at mum can be the following:
If you think that the treatment of a coldbreastfeeding) folk remedies will be safer, then you will have to disappoint. Many natural substances cause allergies. In infants, it often occurs in severe form (with swelling). Therefore, think several times before practicing self-medication.
What should I do if my mother has a runny nose when breastfeeding? How not to infect a child? Whether it is necessary to interrupt a lactemia? What do doctors say about this?
Doctors' advice converges in one:you can not stop breastfeeding. In milk, women contain irreplaceable antibodies. During the cold, the body of the mother struggles with the infection, producing them in large amounts. Antibodies, getting to the child, protect it. Even if you have to use medicines, it's okay. Be sure to make sure that the baby feels well during treatment. Continue lactation as usual.
From the article you were able to find out how thetreatment of the common cold. When breastfeeding is allowed to use not all drugs. So put all the usual means away. Go to the doctor and find out what medicines are allowed to you. The doctor at appointment always considers individual features of the child whom you feed: age, weight, probability of an allergy, disease in the anamnesis. Remember: the feeding mom is not allowed to self-medicate! Strong to you health!
