Breastfeeding mothers should pay attention to their own health while carefully feeding their babies, because this is the time when a mother’s health condition may also have an impact on her baby’s life. Cold is a common disease, what should I do if I have a cold while breastfeeding? Can you continue breastfeeding? A. When can I continue to breastfeed If the cold is not too serious, there is no fever, bacterial infection and other conditions, you can continue to breastfeed, the milk will not have any problems. However, you should wear a mask when breastfeeding, so as to prevent the infection in close proximity. Tears, nasal secretions and saliva should be avoided to pass to the baby. It is best to have a family member watch the baby during times other than breastfeeding. If a breastfeeding mother has a serious cold and a high fever, she should stop breastfeeding and wait until her condition improves before feeding her baby, but she should also regularly pull out her milk to avoid a decrease in milk production. How to treat a cold in a breastfeeding mother The food or drugs that a breastfeeding mother eats will be passed to her baby through her breast milk, and the toxic side effects of the drugs will accumulate in the baby’s body, bringing potential harm to the baby’s body. So exactly how to treat when you have a cold can’t be the same as it used to be, but you have to consider your baby and choose a green treatment or a drug with few side effects so that you can continue breastfeeding. If it is a wind-cold cold, you can choose foods that can sweat and relieve the symptoms, while wind-heat cold should be added to the treatment of clearing heat, the following are some food therapy recipes for reference. 1, wind-cold cold onion white ginger soup: take four sections of white onion, ginger five slices, put into water and boil for ten minutes, take while hot, suitable for wind-cold cold in the early stage of the cold, manifested as a clear runny nose, white tongue coating. Also put white onion and ginger in the porridge when cooking, it has the same effect. White pepper and white onion noodles: After cooking hot noodles in soup, put in white onion and pepper noodles, then eat them while they are hot, cover with a quilt to cover the sweat, and the cold is cured instantly. Cabbage and radish soup: Prepare 250 grams of cabbage hearts and 60 grams of white radish, put them in a pot with water and boil for ten minutes, and take them while they are hot. Perilla leaf water: prepare the right amount of perilla leaves, add them to water and take them while they are hot. 2, wind-heat cold Wind-heat cold manifests as a red and swollen throat, nasal discharge and phlegm are yellow, and the tongue is white with yellow. At this time, you can use cool and detoxifying drugs, such as Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid, etc. 3, other physical therapy methods 1, hot compress: to treat the cold, you can also use a hot water bag to the back of the hot compress, to help get rid of the cold, because the back part of the acupuncture points more, the lung acupuncture point is in it, can promote the lung gas. 2, massage acupuncture points: solar plexus, Yingxiang points on both sides of the nose, Fengchi points behind the ears, the large vertebrae points at the back of the neck, the foot three miles of the legs, etc., massage can relieve cold symptoms. In addition to massage, cupping and moxibustion can also be used, all with the same effect. How to do when you have a cold while breastfeeding? In addition to choosing some green remedies, breastfeeding mothers should rest more in bed, eat a light diet, drink more water, and not abuse drugs to recover as soon as possible.