Anesthetics when breastfeeding - acceptable or not

At present, the natural feeding of newborns and children of the first months of life is more popular than mixed or artificial, which has recently attracted young mothers with its ease and ease. Therefore, more often physicians have to answer the question of whether or not to give those or other medications, for example, painkillers when breastfeeding.

The problem is that some drugs that have analgesic effects on the body can suppress the secretion of milk. In addition, it is known that the drug in breast milk will inevitably get, and thence into the body of the child. Not in every case the doctor will be able to answer unequivocally how the drug will affect the children's body, most of the enzymatic systems of which have not yet fully formed.

How do medications work on the body?

Most modern women know that painkillers when breastfeeding without consulting a doctor should not be taken - in most cases, the drugs of this pharmacological group, when ingested, have a negative effect on the hematopoiesis in the child's body, the nervous system, the liver cells. That is why so often when taking analgesics, especially combination drugs, toxic reactions occur in the child - jaundice, excessive drowsiness, and sucking can occur.

In general, the clinical effects that occur in the adult and in children's organisms, flow the same way, and the medicinal substances accumulate in the same organs and tissues. But in adults, due to a greater amount of adipose tissue, a drug depot can be created there, whereas in a child of the first months of life, all chemicals immediately after ingestion are included in the metabolic processes. That's why it's completely pointless to become a council that can be seen on many Internet forums, recommending taking a small dose of any drug to achieve the goal (pain relief of any localization). Perhaps, this dose will not be enough for the mother, whereas enough milk will be enough to get the side effect of the baby.

Situations in which an anesthetic is required: how not to be mistaken

It is only the doctor who can evaluate the potential benefit to the mother and the risk for the baby, and determine the diagnosis, which requires the appointment of the desired drug, to decide whether or not painkillers are needed while breastfeeding . If a single use of the drug is required in the event of acute and really intolerable pain, the doctor can prescribe almost any medication if several chest feeds are missing and the mother's milk is replaced with a mixture.

In the same case, when you need painkillers for oncology, then there is no question of continuing breastfeeding should not be. The child should be transferred for feeding by a mixture according to age, and the mother should undergo a full examination and treatment of the detected disease. In this situation, it is important to remember that the baby, of course, breast milk is necessary and important for normal development, but a healthy and healthy mother is much more necessary to him. From breast-feeding should still be refused when taking cytotoxic drugs, antitumor drugs, radiological drugs.

In the case if you need painkillers for menstruation, then to eliminate pain, it is necessary to continue breastfeeding - it will help overcome the pain syndrome. Sucking a child reflexively stimulates the release of oxytocin in the body of a woman. The uterus under his influence is reduced more strongly, blood stasis is not created and the pain decreases, and after all disappears.

In the case when painkillers are required after breastfeeding after surgical delivery, the doctor can single-handedly prescribe the necessary drug, most often from a group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.