For lactating mothers, there are some foods that can't be eaten during lactation. For the sake of your baby's health, although some things are delicious, you should bear them first, such as spicy, high calorie, pickled, cold and cold food.
Something you can't eat during lactation
In the lactation period, because the mother wants to enter the body's nutrients into the baby's body through the milk, so the postpartum mother should pay more attention to the things that can't be eaten during the lactation period. For the sake of the baby's health, mothers who are still breast-feeding have to endure some delicious food, such as spicy food, high calorie food, pickled food and cold food. Lactation can not eat the following:
1. Stimulating, spicy food: some mothers have always been no spicy do not like, but for the sake of the baby, but also pay attention to diet light. Onion, garlic and other spicy food, from the milk into the baby's body, cause baby diarrhea or flatulence, affect the baby's health. Because after these foods are absorbed by the mother's digestive system, they will change the taste and acidity of the milk. Therefore, mother or try to eat less or not to eat. Of course, eating a small amount of condiments, such as pepper, vinegar, etc., is OK.
2. High calorie food: try not to eat greasy, fried or sweet food, such as fried potato chips, sugar and cake. Because these foods usually contain high calorie, but lack of nutrition, can only provide short-term energy, which has a great impact on the quality of milk. And fried food is difficult to digest, for the mother who has just given birth to a baby, digestion is weak, the mother ate to restore health.
3. Foods containing caffeine or theobromine: coffee, chocolate, etc. are foods that affect your baby's health. Because coffee contains caffeine and chocolate contains theobromine, these ingredients will seep into breast milk and accumulate in the baby's body. Caffeine and theobromine can damage the nervous system and heart, and make muscle relaxation, increase urination, make baby indigestion, sleep instability. In addition, mother eat more chocolate will affect appetite, drink more coffee will affect sleep.
4. Pickled food: for pickled fish and meat, the daily amount of salt for adults is 4.5-9g. According to normal habits, don't avoid salt and don't eat too salty. Mother eat too much salt, will increase the burden of the kidney, adverse to the kidney, will also increase blood pressure.
5. Excessive consumption of monosodium glutamate: the consumption of monosodium glutamate has a serious impact on the development of the baby, especially for the baby under 12 weeks, which will cause the baby's mental decline, growth retardation and other adverse consequences. It is better for the mother not to eat monosodium glutamate during the lactation period, and never be greedy and like to eat monosodium glutamate.
6. Drugs and alcohol: drugs and alcohol into the blood, through the milk into the baby's body. Therefore, we should pay attention to the contraindications of drugs and avoid drinking.
7. Cool or chilled fruits: foods that you can't eat during lactation include cool or chilled fruits. I believe that mothers all know this truth, postpartum mother's body is weak, if you eat these fruits, it will hurt the mother's spleen and stomach, affect appetite.