What can a nursing mother for a headache?

During breastfeeding, as during pregnancy, you should avoid self-selection and taking medication, because they can indirectly harm your child. If a nursing mother has a frequent migraine or headache , then only the lead doctor can tell her how to treat it. There are also harmless and popular methods of anesthesia.

How to relieve a headache nursing mom?

To understand what to take with a headache nursing mother, you need to find out the cause of this condition. Different reasons require a different approach to treatment. The headache can cause:

• increased or decreased pressure;
• lack of sleep;
• catarrhal disease, inflammatory process in the body;
• lactostasis;
• stress.

Having found out the reason of appearance of bad state of health, it is possible to resort to folk methods of general strengthening health improvement, which in any way will not affect mother's milk. Try to just relax (sleep, take a shower, go to a massage), do an easy exercise, drink green tea, apply a cool compress or go out into the fresh air. In case of diseases that do not go through such methods, immediately consult a doctor and, together with him, select the necessary course of treatment.

What can I drink from a headache to a nursing mother?

Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the only permitted analgesics that can be used for HBs. But still, you can drink this pill once, and then consult a doctor.

If a woman has to take a long course of medication, then she will have to give up feeding for this time. In this case, Mom has several possible ways to solve this problem:

If the medication is taken once a day (or less often), replace several feeds with a mixture or in advance expressed milk until the drug is removed from the body.

Transfer the child temporarily for supplementation with artificial milk formulas, but continue to express the milk so that after the treatment period, return normal lactation and resume feeding.

As you can see, you can not abuse the use of even permitted medications from headaches when breastfeeding. But to endure the pain is also not an option, because your bad state of health will necessarily affect the child, so during this period it is very sensitive to listen to your own body and not be lazy, if necessary, consult a trusted doctor.