Can I drink alcohol while breastfeeding?

Some women are addicted to alcohol and do not forget to have a few sips even during breastfeeding. In fact, this approach is extremely wrong. There is a huge difference between the alcohol tolerance of us adults and infants. Even if the mother thinks the amount of alcohol consumed is small and the alcohol content is low, this amount of alcohol may be intoxicating for a breastfeeding baby. Therefore, women should not drink alcohol during breastfeeding, and should not drink beverages containing alcohol.

It is best for breastfeeding women not to drink alcohol, otherwise it will affect the baby. What are the effects of drinking during breastfeeding? Wine is brewed with barley and other raw materials. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that barley malt has the effect of inducing milk secretion. Wine brewed with barley will inhibit the secretion of milk. Therefore, drinking alcohol during breastfeeding will affect breastfeeding. In addition, wine also contains a certain amount of alcohol, which enters the baby's body through breastfeeding and affects the baby's brain development. Even small amounts of alcohol can pass into your baby's breast milk.

Alcohol has a huge impact on the nervous system, especially for children. When a breastfeeding mother drinks alcohol, the alcohol content in her body will be too high, which will affect her milk. Excessive alcohol intake will have a certain impact on the baby's brain development.

What not to drink during breastfeeding? Don’t drink a lot of tea. On the one hand, the high concentration of tannic acid in tea after entering the blood circulation may inhibit mammary gland secretion, resulting in insufficient milk secretion. On the other hand, the caffeine in tea can also enter the baby's body through breast milk, making the baby prone to intestinal cramps and crying for no reason, poor sleep, and causing other complications. Therefore, it is recommended to drink less tea, and if you drink, drink some chrysanthemum tea.

Someone did an experiment in which 400 pairs of mothers and children were selected, some of whom drank and some did not. Without considering the influence of other factors, the children of mothers who drank had significantly lower intellectual and physical development after the age of one than those of children of mothers who did not drink. This experiment also tells us a fact that it is best for mothers not to drink alcohol while breastfeeding.