What to do if you eat spicy food during breastfeeding

People go through different periods in their lives. For women, lactation is a very important period. This period is the only time when women secrete milk. Breast milk plays a vital role in the healthy growth of the baby, and the eating habits of lactating women will determine the quality of milk, thus affecting the baby's growth. Everyone knows that women should avoid eating chili peppers during breastfeeding. So, what should you do if you eat spicy food during breastfeeding?

If a breastfeeding mother eats spicy food, she should stop breastfeeding immediately and drink plenty of water. Drinking water can relieve the spiciness, dilute the spicy substances, and reduce the concentration of the substances that penetrate into the breast milk. It can also promote the mother's metabolism, which is good for the baby's breastfeeding the next day.

Breastfeeding mothers should try to eat less and more carefully chili peppers, because spicy and warm foods like chili peppers can not only easily damage body fluids, consume qi and blood, aggravate qi and blood deficiency, and cause constipation, but can also easily enter the baby's body through breast milk and affect the baby's health. In addition, mothers also need to abstain from foods such as garlic, leeks, fennel, and pepper. If a breastfeeding mother eats spicy food, it will cause physical discomfort to the baby, because the baby's stomach and intestines are relatively delicate. If the mother eats spicy and irritating food, it is easy to cause diarrhea, inflammation or constipation in the baby. Some babies with weak constitution or sensitive skin will have other symptoms to varying degrees, such as red and swollen eyes, itchy skin, etc., which will affect the baby's development. Therefore, breastfeeding mothers should not feed their babies immediately after eating spicy food. It is best to feed their babies one day later, because the breast milk will be too spicy and salty after eating spicy food, which will affect the quality of the baby's milk, as well as the baby's taste and health.

It’s not that you can’t eat spicy food during breastfeeding, but you need to eat less spicy and irritating foods, such as leeks, garlic sprouts, chili peppers, pepper, fennel, wine, etc. Breastfeeding mothers should try to eat less irritating food. Irritating food can not only easily damage body fluid, consume qi and blood, aggravate qi and blood deficiency and cause constipation, but also easily enter the baby's body through breast milk and affect the baby's health. However, a small amount of condiments, such as pepper, vinegar, etc., are still acceptable.