Smoking 3 to 5 cigarettes a day during breastfeeding

Some mothers may develop a smoking habit. They suppress the urge to smoke during pregnancy, but suddenly cannot control it after giving birth. However, smoking is harmful to the human body. So, does smoking 3-5 cigarettes a day during breastfeeding have any effect on the baby?

The harmful substances in smoke can affect breast milk. Also, the environment around the baby should be kept clean and tidy, and the baby should not be exposed to secondhand smoke at such a young age. Babies will develop many diseases in poor air, so it is better not to smoke them. If the mother is breastfeeding, it will harm the baby, and if she smokes in front of the baby, it will also harm the baby.

Can breastfeeding mothers smoke?

1. During breastfeeding, you must pay attention to diet and other aspects. In particular, you are not allowed to smoke, drink alcohol, or drink a lot of coffee. Emotions are also often crucial.

2. If women smoke during breastfeeding, it can reduce milk secretion, and tobacco tar can also allow blood to enter the breast milk. Women who smoke 10-20 cigarettes a day can extract 0.4-0.5 mg of tar from cigarettes in 1 kg of breast milk. The tar from cigarettes will be passed on to the baby through breast milk, which is a serious threat to the baby's health.

3. Everyone knows the harm of tobacco. If smokers quit smoking, there will be some adverse effects (reducing smoking first, then quitting). You should be more careful during breastfeeding, reducing first and then stopping. If you are exposed to secondhand smoke, you should be careful to avoid smoking, as lighting a cigarette will produce a lot of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and other substances. First of all, it is not good for your own body, and it will also cause the baby's heart function to decline, affect IQ and other problems.

Can a father smoke while breastfeeding?

1. Secondhand smoke causes breast milk to be "toxic"

Experts have found that breastfeeding mothers who smoke or inhale second-hand smoke have less milk secretion reflexes, lower milk quality, and are more likely to wean prematurely. Moreover, the content of tobacco tar in their breast milk is nearly 2-3 times higher than that in normal mothers' breast milk. This also means that the baby may not only inhale toxic gases, but also "drink poison".

2. Secondhand smoke affects breast milk secretion

Prolactin can regulate milk secretion, while tobacco will reduce the prolactin level in the mother's body, reduce milk secretion, and prevent the baby from getting enough breast milk. In addition, if the mother smokes during breastfeeding, the baby will often have "abdominal colic". This is because the tar enters the baby's body through breast milk, thus affecting the baby's normal growth and development.

3. Secondhand smoke affects the baby's breathing

The thick smoke from tobacco will deprive the baby of CO2, which in turn affects the growth and development of the respiratory center in the brain. In the case of long-term hypoxia, the human body compensates by continuously producing "diphosphoglycerate" to increase CO2 transport. Babies who grow up in this kind of environment are more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, asthma, otitis media, bronchitis, sinusitis, etc.

4. Secondhand smoke affects your baby’s heart

High-density cholesterol (HDL) can prevent heart disease. Studies have shown that babies whose father, mother or both smoke have lower levels of this type of cholesterol, causing the toxins in tobacco to affect the automatic regulation of the heartbeat.

5. Secondhand smoke can cause deafness in babies

The toxins contained in the thick smoke produced by burning tobacco have a stimulating effect on the baby's ear mucosa, which can increase and thicken the mucus secreted in the ear, cause obstruction of the Eustachian tube, and thus cause fluid accumulation in the middle ear and cause otitis media. Over time, the eardrum may become perforated, thickened, adhered, or sunken, causing hearing loss and eventually conductive hearing loss.