Infants with anemia can be supplemented with breast milk, but the appropriate treatment will also depend on the degree of anemia in the infant.
Breastfed infants can be supplemented with certain iron supplements through breast milk, thus correcting mild anemia. However, for severe anemia, breastfeeding alone cannot get effective improvement.
If your baby has moderate to severe anemia, you need to go to the pediatrician’s office in the hospital to determine the degree of anemia and the type of anemia, and then give iron supplements such as iron dextrose, ferrous fumarate, and ferrous lactate according to your baby’s specific condition to treat the symptoms.
If the baby is more than six months old, the anemia can also be improved by adding complementary foods, giving the baby more iron-rich foods, such as pig liver, duck blood, iron-containing rice powder and other foods.
Therefore, infant anemia can be achieved through breast milk blood supplementation to a certain effect, the specific also need to be based on the baby’s condition under the guidance of the doctor to choose the treatment plan. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.