It has long been known that smoking is extremely harmful and dangerous to health. Let's figure out how smoking can affect the health of a nursing mother and child.
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To begin with, smoking is a bad habit in itself, which destroys the body, introducing up to 4 thousand life -threatening substances into it with each cigarette with a cigarette. Now imagine a nursing mommy, who, after an hour or two, after smoking gives the breast to the child, and together with milk supplies the baby, in addition to nicotine, acetone, arsenic, lead, formaldehyde and other nightmares from the chemistry course.
In addition, it is unlikely that the mommy began to smoke only during breastfeeding. Most likely, she supplied the baby with a lot of harmful substances and throughout pregnancy through connection with him through the placenta. Therefore, the negative effect on the child’s body can already be considered prolonged.
Smoking and breastfeeding: What does the baby suffer from?
Let's find out what kind of harm causes a cigarette baby in his mother’s hand. Half an hour after a smoked cigarette, nicotine is in the blood, and therefore in the milk produced by mammary glands. "So what? How much is that nicotine there! " - Many will say and will be wrong.
Perennial observations and research Uncertainly prove that children who do not have this bad habit receive a much larger amount of milk, because when smoking, the production of such a hormone as prolactin, which in turn, is reduced for the production of breast milk, is reduced. Especially active production of this hormone occurs at night, so the evening and night puffs of the mother are especially harmful.
In addition to reducing the amount of milk, the quality of the product also worsens, it becomes less saturated with vitamins, hormones, enzymes and other useful substances necessary for creating a strong immune system (the same vitamin C, by the way).
The fact that passive smoking is no less harmful than active has probably heard everything. And where to go to the chest baby who sucks nicotine and becomes unconsciously dependent on it? Therefore, if the mommy does not just smoke during the period of breastfeeding, but also allows itself to be in the presence of crumbs (even on the street), then it should be prepared for the fact that this pernicious habit, in the literal sense of the word, absorbed with mother’s milk, Already in adolescence it can make an avid smoker out of the child.
In addition, depending on the degree of concentration of tobacco smoke, the child may experience nausea, allergic reactions may occur, and the carbon monoxide obtained together with nicotine is capable of provoking diseases of the respiratory system.
And do not think, by the way, that mother's smoking adversely affects the breathing system. A negative effect begins with disorders in the work of the baby’s heart, and constant smoking, including And during breastfeeding, it is completely fraught with heart failure, rhythm disorders, often leading to arrhythmia and tachycardia.
Smoking and breastfeeding: What does mom suffer from?
Nicotine dependence is no less harmful to the most nursing mother, which has already lost many energy resources during pregnancy, which gave a lot of vitamins and beneficial substances for the growth of the fetus in her body. To this “pumping” forces we add more efforts of the body directly during childbirth, and then, instead of complete relaxation and restoration of forces, a woman begins a complete trouble and sleepless nights. And nicotine in this case does not help to return to normal faster.
Of course, the quality of milk produced by such a mother also suffers. Nicotine plus the complete tension of the body is an explosive mixture. All the above composition of the poisonous components of cigarettes not only reduce the nutritional qualities of milk, adding to it, moreover, a tobacco taste, but also affects the vascular walls of the mammary glands, on the ducts, leading to their periodic spasms and interferes with the unhindered course of milk. In addition, smoking often limits the duration of breastfeeding.
How does the baby behave, getting such a nicotine -containing milk?
- He becomes easily excitable, sleeps poorly, thereby not allowing a rest so in need of this mother.
- The appetite is reduced, and hence the insufficient weight gain, slow progress in growth and normal age -related development.
- It is possible that tobacco components will provoke a tendency to allergic diseases in a child, and also create a lot of problems with the gastrointestinal tract, including colic, constipation, flatulence, and sometimes can reach the gallplate.
- In addition to allergies, the baby can receive diseases associated with the respiratory system, since its immunity, which has not yet formed, is weakened by nicotine doses, to lag behind in the development of the psyche, and even a predisposition to oncology.
Smoking during breastfeeding: who is to blame and what to do?
So what to do if the mother cannot find the strength in herself in order to quit smoking? At least to do everything, depending on it in order to minimize all the threats for the baby.
Important: a deadly dose of nicotine is 1 mg per 1 kg of weight. For comparison: a deadly dose of potassium cyanide - 1.7 mg/kg.
- Firstly, in no case do not smoke in the room where the child is. Go outside or at least on the balcony.
- Secondly, arrange smoke breaks in such a way that the break between smoking and taking milk is at least 2 hours.
- Thirdly, try if you do not completely abandon cigarettes, then at least reduce their number. Eat well, because the more healthy and high -quality food is consumed by mother, the more saturated by vitamins and useful elements her milk.
A large number of fluids you drink will contribute to a larger amount of milk produced and the speedy removal of those harmful substances that entered your blood with nicotine puffs from the body. Walk more often with your child on the street, let it inhale as much oxygen as possible. And, of course, brush your teeth and wash your hands after each smoked cigarette.
Doctors, evaluating and comparing the degree of risk for the baby when smoking a mother, still agree that even smoking is not able to make breast milk less valuable than artificial feeding mixtures. Therefore, if you could not abandon cigarettes for the health of your child, then at least follow the tips above.
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