Virtually every young mother will do everything to feed her newborn baby, not with an artificial formula, but with her breast milk. Breastfeeding, or HBG, as many mothers call it, is very important for a baby in the first year of his life.
However, breastfeeding has another side: the mother during the period of breastfeeding should follow a certain diet, and also be careful with taking medications. So, not all conventional painkillers and cold medications are acceptable when taken during breastfeeding. Therefore, often, mothers are forced to endure a severe headache that cannot be overcome by popular methods and suffer from colds.
So, are there any painkillers that can be taken during breastfeeding, which drugs can be used, which ones should not be taken, let's find out all this in more detail.
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Breastfeeding and painkillers
Most young mothers prefer to endure the pain to the last, but there may come a time when patience comes to an end and the pain becomes so unbearable that it interferes with the child.
So, what rules should be taken into account in order to understand whether it is possible to take pain medication and which one:
- in any case, do not "assign" to yourself this or that anesthetic during breastfeeding, only if your girlfriend saw it and the baby did not have anything. All cases are individual and only the attending physician can prescribe pain medications. In addition, the effects of the penetration of the drug into the child’s body can be extremely negative;
- even if the doctor prescribed the drug to you, do not forget to re-read his instructions;
- Do not reduce the dose of a prohibited anesthetic, because even in limited quantities it can cause danger to the child.
Do not relax and do not take in large quantities the drug, which can be used during breastfeeding. After all, sometimes there are cases when a drug that does not represent a particular danger to the health of a baby, may cause cessation of lactation even in the case of a short reception.
Do not think that those drugs that can be taken during lactation are completely harmless to the child. They poison his body to one degree or another, because they can not yet be removed from the organs of the baby.
In limited doses and in exceptional cases, you can take certain means, but do not overdo it and monitor the reaction of the baby and in time to cancel their reception.
What painkillers can be taken during lactation?
In limited doses and only when there is an urgent need for this, it is possible to take anesthetic nonsteroid drugs during breastfeeding, including:
- Naproxen;
- Ketroprofen;
- Ibuprofen
It is highly desirable that the use of such drugs during breastfeeding is not systematic, but once, because until the end of their properties on the effects on the body of young children are very poorly studied, so do not risk it.
If you suffer from a severe headache, you can take once:
- Ketorol or Ketanov;
- Paracetamol;
- But Shpu.
BUT with toothache or for anesthesia in the treatment of teeth, it is acceptable to use Ultracain or Lidocaine during lactation data painkillers are considered the safest for both nursing mother and baby.
What drugs should not be taken?
However, if all of the above drugs can be taken during lactation within reasonable limits and in extreme cases, then there are a number of drugs that can not be taken while breastfeeding under any circumstances. Among them:
- Aspirin;
- Analgin and its analogues;
- Citramon
The fact is that Analgin and its analogues may cause severe allergies the child has, and Aspirin and Citramon have a very negative effect on the internal organs of the baby, which are still so poorly developed, which may cause future health problems.
Sometimes an anesthetic based on certain active substances can help to cope with the pain, which is allowed during lactation in one form or another. For example, Ibuprofen can be taken in the form of a gel or candles, and Ketanov - in the form of gels. This or that form of medication will help to make it so that it will affect the painful organ, and not the whole organism. In this regard, rectal suppositories will be the safest and will create a longer pain relief effect.
What if you need to take a potent remedy?
Sometimes the situation is such that a nursing mother still needs to take exactly that pain medicine, which during lactation is prohibited. In such cases, the decision in favor of taking the drug only a doctor is allowed to takeand not advisers from the side. How, in fact, in other cases, it is desirable during feeding, to coordinate with the doctor all the medicines that you plan to take.
If you need to take a potent pain medicine at once, it is better to play it safe and express the milk, replacing one of the breastfeeds with milk formula.
In dentistry, if a doctor used Lidocaine or Ultracain for anesthesia do not express milk, because these drugs have the property immediately removed from the body.
If a serious illness requiring prolonged treatment with the use of potent drugs is detected in the mother, then the child should be transferred to artificial feeding. Because it is unknown how long the treatment will last and how quickly the drugs will be completely removed from the body.
As a rule, if the mother does not have chronic diseases or serious health problems, the need to drink a pill from the head will not occur too often, and you shouldn’t force yourself to suffer from pain either. Well, if headache or toothache has become too frequent, then you can’t stuff yourself with pills and go to the doctor.
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