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The baby is over three months old and exclusively breastfed. If the mom has a cold, can it be passed on to the baby?

The baby is over three months old and exclusively breastfed. If the mom has a cold, can it be passed on to the baby?

As a pharmacist, a mom, and a breastfeeding supporter, we all want our babies to have their mother's precious rations. The road to breastfeeding is hard and winding, with pressures from elders and from all sides that only moms who have experienced it know. And the benefits of breastfeeding on the baby's immune system, on growth and development, and on the psyche can be replicated by any other kind of industrially produced formula. Many new moms accidentally catch a cold while breastfeeding, and many elders recommend stopping breastfeeding for fear of passing it on to the baby. And that this breast milk contains viruses that the baby cannot eat. So is it true? Let's find out next.

If you get a cold while breastfeeding, there is a good chance that you will pass on cold pathogens to your baby, but at the same time, the antibodies that your body produces to fight off cold pathogens will be passed on to your baby through your milk. These antibodies will help your baby quickly and effectively defeat the cold pathogen and prevent your baby from getting a cold. This defense mechanism significantly reduces the risk of ear infections, vomiting, diarrhea, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and spondylitis in breastfed babies. So try to wear a mask during breastfeeding to avoid passing a cold to your baby, and even if you do pass it on to your baby, there is no need to be anxious, as the mother's antibodies to pathogens will be passed on to her baby through her breast milk. No matter who has a cold, the care and love of the family is a good medicine, especially for breastfeeding mothers, and the family should give more tolerance and love. The emergence of a cold (common cold) should be symptomatic support, try to choose drugs with a single component of the drug, if you really can not breastfeeding, it can be recommended to suck out the breast milk with a breast pump or self-extracted to promote the amount of milk secretion, but if it is the influenza, it is necessary to distinguish between serious and serious, after all, the symptoms of influenza is more serious compared to the common cold, if the symptoms are mild can continue to breastfeeding, does not affect breastfeeding.

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