Smoking During Breastfeeding

If you breastfeed, you should avoid smoking because it causes health problems for both mother and child. All poisons and toxins contained in cigarettes is also for the baby. We have seen that many women smoke, even after they know its harmful effects during pregnancy or if breastfeeding.

There are women who continue to smoke even during lactation. Smoking and breastfeeding at the same time is very dangerous and should be avoided by breastfeeding. Baby gets all the bad effects of smoking if 20 or more cigarettes that are consumed by the mother every day. More cigarettes, plus the baby would be conducted.

Heavy smoking is also the outcome of the offer of reduced milk in mothers. It also causes symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, vomiting, nausea, and so on rare occasions in nursing mothers who smoke heavily.

The risk is even higher if women smoke cigarettes during or just before meals. This is because the level of nicotine in their milk and blood increased rapidly. Even if it decreases over time but it is always dangerous for the baby.

It takes about 95 minutes for the body to eliminate half of the body Nicotera. This is also known that the half-life of nicotine. Even if a mother smokes while she is feeding the baby just after half past one.

If we talk about smoking and breastfeeding, and maternal smoking could lead to dropping reflex inhibition of milk ejection, reduced milk production and early weaning. Not only that, it also lowers the level of prolactin in the blood. smoking mothers are sometimes heavy and leaner have higher metabolic rates than non-smoking mothers.

Babies of mothers who smoke like smoke before or during breastfeeding are fussier and colic than babies whose mothers were non-smokers.

The baby should not even be exposed to secondhand smoke by people who smoke cigarettes. Many diseases such as SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), stunted development, respiratory diseases and many other health hazards may occur because of secondhand smoke.

Many people smoke and others smoke around them, even after all these known facts. They are very well aware of the types of tongue, mouth, lips, etc. lung cancer are consequences of smoking. Even after so much knowledge of these people are not ready to quit.

Even if a mother smoking is always advisable to stop smoking, but many experts agree that the benefits of breastfeeding can overcome the results of smoking. Thus, even if the mother smokes, she can give breastfeeding. It would be better if it follows certain period of time between his smoking and breastfeeding.