You can breastfeed after thyroid cancer surgery, but not immediately.
Under normal circumstances, after having thyroid cancer surgery, as long as the surgery is successful and the post-surgery recovery is relatively good, you can breastfeed normally when your body recovers.
If you have iodine-131 treatment after thyroid cancer surgery, you must not breastfeed your child immediately. This is because iodine-131 is a synthetic radioisotope that is somewhat radioactive. Therefore, breastfeeding women who have had thyroid cancer surgery followed by iodine-131 treatment should preferably breastfeed their children after two weeks, so as not to affect the normal growth and development of the children.
As we can see, breastfeeding after thyroid cancer surgery does not affect breastfeeding, but the time of breastfeeding has some limitations, so as to avoid the child’s absorption of breastmilk being affected by the drugs. Whether breastfeeding after thyroid cancer surgery is possible or not, it is recommended to consult the attending doctor before breastfeeding and then make a decision.