Sore throat of breastfeeding mom may be caused by snoring, dry air, tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis and other factors, which can be treated by general and medication methods.
1. Snoring: Most women will gain weight after giving birth, which will cause narrowing of the upper respiratory tract, leading to snoring during sleep, resulting in sore throat during breastfeeding. You can increase the amount of water you drink, control your weight appropriately, and try to take the side lying position when you sleep.
2. Dry air: the environment is too dry, can also make breastfeeding women have a sore throat. In addition to increasing the amount of drinking water, you can use a humidifier to improve the humidity of the air.
3. Tonsillitis: Postpartum women’s resistance is weak, easy to be infected by pathogens, pathogens infected tonsils, can trigger tonsillitis, resulting in pain in the throat, difficulty in swallowing and other phenomena.
Should pay attention to rest, drink more water, can use salt water, compound chlorhexidine gargle liquid gargle, if necessary, can follow the doctor’s instructions to use sensitive bacteria antibiotics.
4. Acute pharyngitis: It can also cause sore throat, and will be accompanied by dry throat, fever, headache and other symptoms.
Keep the room ventilated, drink plenty of water, and if necessary, use silver and yellow tablets as prescribed by the doctor to alleviate the discomfort. If the condition is serious, use proprietary Chinese medicines as prescribed by the doctor, such as PuDiLan Anti-inflammatory Oral Liquid and Blue Scutellaria Oral Liquid, to treat the condition.
In addition, there are other causes of sore throat in nursing mothers, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the disease, and then follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the treatment, to avoid blind use of medication, so as not to have an impact on the newborn.