As the weather turns cooler, it’s high season for cold and flu, especially for breastfeeding moms, who are very worried once they catch a cold. How can a mom breastfeed her baby if she has a cold? You can continue breastfeeding if you have a mild cold. The most common symptoms of a cold during breastfeeding are fever, sneezing, runny nose, cough and sore throat. Generally speaking, the cold virus is not transmitted through the way of breastfeeding, but through the air droplets, so when the mother has a cold, she has already contaminated the environment where the baby lives. Breast milk produces its own antibodies, which help the baby to fight the disease. But if a nursing mother has a fever, she can suspend breastfeeding for a day or two. Therefore, breastfeeding mothers do not need to worry too much when they have a cold, so relax and breastfeed your baby. How to breastfeed if you have a fever? If a breastfeeding mom has a fever, she can still breastfeed her baby as long as she doesn’t have a high fever that won’t go away and has a lot of physical exertion. Because the child in the daily contact with the mother, has inevitably come into contact with the mother to carry the bacteria, and to produce a certain antibody to it, so the general cold, fever, the mother can still be assured that the baby breastfeeding, but pay attention to more water, so as not to concentrate the milk, caused by the child’s diarrhea. General doctors in regular hospitals, when you learn that you are in the breastfeeding period of time prescribed medication should be able to eat, drink more warm water, breastfeeding does not have to be suspended, even if the fever did not go down is not afraid of, a low fever is able to give the baby breastfeeding, a high fever is not. What should I do if I have a fever while breastfeeding? The first thing a breastfeeding mom needs to know is what causes the fever, and the right remedy is the right remedy. Usually, the fever can be caused by breastfeeding mastitis, puerperal infections, and wind-cold infections, etc., so you can choose different measures for different degrees of fever. If you have a fever during breastfeeding, new mothers should not use medicines indiscriminately, in order to prevent the medicines from having an adverse effect on the child. If the fever is not very serious, mothers can treat the fever caused by cold by drinking hot water and ginger soup. By making the body sweat through this drink, the cold will be cured. Secondly, you can consider physical therapy to reduce the fever of the mother – take alcohol and rub the forehead area, palms, feet and the front and back of the heart position, through the principle of alcohol evaporation, so that the mother’s body temperature will drop. Breastfeeding mom must protect her body, usually drink more water and pay attention to keep warm, in case of cold and flu should also go to the hospital in time, listen to the doctor’s advice. Medication or breastfeeding, there is no need to panic, as long as you follow the doctor’s advice, you will be able to get through this difficult stage.