Can you continue to breastfeed with a fever while breastfeeding?

Whether or not you can continue breastfeeding if you have a fever during breastfeeding needs to be determined by the situation. If it is a mild common cold with low fever, you can continue breastfeeding; however, if the fever is caused by influenza virus infection, acute suppurative mastitis, intestinal infectious diseases and other factors, it is not recommended to continue breastfeeding if the condition is serious. 1. Common cold: If you don’t take good warming measures during breastfeeding, and get cold and cause common cold, the body temperature is lower than 38.5 ℃, without obvious other discomforts, it can be cured by itself, no need to use medication, and there is usually no obvious effect on breastfeeding, but you need to keep the indoor air circulating during this period, and drink a lot of fluids. 2. Influenza virus infection: If you are infected with influenza virus during breastfeeding, you can continue breastfeeding without high fever due to your child’s weak immune system, but you need to take protective measures to avoid infecting your child, and if you have high fever and the condition is serious, we suggest that you do not continue breastfeeding for the time being. 3. Acute septic mastitis: If acute septic mastitis occurs during breastfeeding, you can’t continue breastfeeding to prevent pathogenic microorganisms from adversely affecting the child through the milk. 4. Intestinal infectious diseases: if the breastfeeding is attacked by norovirus, resulting in gastrointestinal tract infection, severe fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and even dehydration, you need to suspend breastfeeding, active treatment, and wait for the symptoms to disappear before considering resuming breastfeeding. There are many reasons for fever during breastfeeding, it is recommended to first go to the hospital to find out the cause of the disease, and actively treat it, so as to avoid adverse consequences for the mother and the child.