During breastfeeding, you need to be extremely careful with taking any medications, because when you use them, part of the drug enters the breast milk and is passed on to the baby. But during this period, an urgent need is the treatment of a headache that occurs in a nursing mother because of frequent lack of sleep associated with caring for the baby. Therefore, many young mothers are interested in: is it possible to use quitramone in breastfeeding, which is most often used to eliminate headaches?
Whether it is possible to drink tsitramon feeding mums?
Many women in the cosmetic bag have a plate of citramone tablets in case of a headache. Many, unfortunately, do not even think about its composition and side effects. For most, three factors determine the choice of the drug:
- it can be bought at any pharmacy;
- Citramon is available at a price;
- he quickly eliminates the headache.
To understand whether it is possible to breastfeed mothers Citramon, you need to understand what is included in its composition and how its components can affect the baby babe. The main component of citramone is a large dose of acetylsalicylic acid, that is, aspirin. As is known, aspirin, has an anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect, affects the blood coagulation system, reducing this ability, and can have a harmful effect on the stomach and intestinal mucosa. Therefore, the use of citramone during lactation can provoke the development of gastritis and peptic ulcer.
The second drug that is part of Citramon is paracetamol, which also has an anti-inflammatory effect, analgesic and antipyretic. The third component of citramone is caffeine, which has a stimulating effect on the nervous system. Frequent administration of citramone during lactation can cause nervousness and sleep disturbances in young mothers and, consequently, in her child.
Citromone for lactating - effect on the infant
In the instructions for use, it is written that citramone is contraindicated in breastfeeding. Any medicine, including citramone, is absorbed into breast milk and passed on to the baby. In a newborn, the administration of citramone can cause agitation, sleep disturbance, and vomiting. Paracetamol is contraindicated in children under 12 years of age, and a newborn baby, especially since his kidneys and liver are unable to remove the products of his decay from the body. Acetylsalicylic acid, which is contained in paracetamol in large quantities, is poorly metabolized and excreted from the body of the newborn. Thus, with prolonged intake of citramone by a nursing mother, it can disrupt blood clotting in the child and lead to bleeding.
When can breastfeeding mother be citramone?
It is contraindicated in breastfeeding mothers, and if it is possible to avoid it, it is better to use alternative methods of treating headaches. Citramone of a nursing mother can be taken only as a last resort, when all methods are tried and other medicines are simply not at hand. But once again,
In order not to take tsitramon nursing, you can use the following safe methods of treating a headache:
- outdoor walks contribute to the enrichment of the brain with oxygen, which helps to eliminate or reduce the headache;
- rubbing the temples with the balsam "Vietnamese starlet" to many women allows you to get rid of the headache;
- putting fresh cabbage leaves on the head;
- from medicines preference should be given to ibuprofen and nurofen, side effects of which are minimal.