Contents:
- Medical Video: Breastfeeding Position and Latch
- Can you eat spicy when you feed your baby?
- Then, can eating spicy while breastfeeding affect breast milk?
- How do you know if your baby is sensitive to spicy food?
Medical Video: Breastfeeding Position and Latch
He said, what you eat when breastfeeding will also be felt by your child because the taste of the food goes into breast milk. Therefore, mothers should not eat spicy when breastfeeding for fear that the baby also feels the taste. So, can you actually or not eat spicy when you are breastfeeding? Will the spicy taste be felt in small amounts through breast milk? Check out the answer in the following review.
Can you eat spicy when you feed your baby?
Mothers should not eat spicy when breastfeeding is just a myth and the notion of society. Because, according to Dr. Paula Meier, Ph.D., director of research and lactation at the Neonatal Rush University Medical Center Intensive Care Unit and chair of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation, said that there is actually no food that mothers should avoid when breastfeeding their babies.
Actually, the mother's breast has the ability to filter out important nutrients from the mother's body that are useful in making breast milk (ASI), so limiting food consumption while breastfeeding is just a myth because what you eat will be very useful as a nutrient store in the body. You only need to avoid certain types of foods that can clearly have an adverse effect on your body, such as alcohol.
In fact it turns out, there are good benefits if mothers eat various types of food during breastfeeding. A child nutrition specialist psychologist, Lucy Cooke, states that babies who are breastfed will usually tend to be more likely to like various types of food later in life, because they have been accustomed to receiving various foods from the time of breastfeeding.
Then, can eating spicy while breastfeeding affect breast milk?
Basically, the taste of breast milk does not change easily when the mother consumes various types of food, such as sweet, salty, spicy, sour, and bitter.
Even so, reported from the Baby Center, if the taste of breast milk is sometimes different after you eat food with a spicy taste, it might be a new experience for your little one. Experts consider this to be one of the wise ways to introduce food tastes to babies.
According to Emma Pickett, an internationally-certified lactation consultant, that when mothers breastfeed and consume a variety of foods with different nutritional and flavored ingredients, it can indeed help babies to know the various tastes of food.
But of course, whatever type of food is eaten, the natural taste of breast milk will still dominate.
How do you know if your baby is sensitive to spicy food?
Although the taste of breast milk derived from certain types of food does not directly affect the health of the baby, but you need to be vigilant if your baby's health suddenly deteriorates. Because during the breastfeeding period, of course the baby only gets food and drinks from the mother's milk.
According to Dr. Meta Hanindita Sp.A Dr. Hospital Soetomo Surabaya, revealed that chili contains capsaicin, so that there are some babies who are sensitive to this food substance and then experience diarrhea.
In addition to diarrhea, other reactions that may occur if your child is sensitive to spicy foods while breastfeeding are:
- Fuss after finishing breastfeeding
- Sleep less
- Looks uncomfortable
- The appearance of a reaction on the skin
However, this reaction does not always indicate the baby's response to spicy food, it may be caused by other food factors.
Your task now is to pay more attention to what types of food you consume every day during lactation, and observe if there are changes in the health conditions in your child after you eat these foods.
