With winter and over with the cold it is very possible that we end up with a cold. If we have a baby and we sleep sharing the bed or the room with him we can doubt if it would be better to transfer it or if it would be better to avoid Colecho or breastfeeding with a cold.
We can collect with a cold
At first there is no recommendation against. In fact, if we are taking care of the baby, it will also come into contact with the viruses, which are spread through the air.
We should not take more precautions than usual to ventilate the house, wash our hands frequently and avoid sneezing and coughing about it, but the reality is that it is almost impossible to isolate it from possible infections in normal life and sharing the room is not contraindicated.
We can breastfeed with a cold
If we breastfeed, through the breast milk they will pass the defenses that the immune system is making to fight that infection, so above all you have to keep breastfeeding. Even with fever, breastfeeding has no risks.
Although necessary take any medication remember that almost all are perfectly compatible with breastfeeding and, in case of doubt, we can consult the e-breastfeeding page with the advice of the attending physician, because it specifies the possible risks of each of them or of the active ingredients .
From experience I tell you that adult doctors do not always know her, so it is worth going to the consultation and asking her to look for a compatible medication.
Removing breastfeeding is worse than using even some of the medications that are not at risk 0, so, in case of doubt, if we are told that we should stop breastfeeding, you can ask for a second opinion from a pediatric expert with specific training in lactation.
In addition, the Breastfeeding Committee of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics has a forum where we can directly make our lactation and medication consultations. It is very useful in these cases.
There is a document published by IHAN that speaks precisely of the risks that certain compounds pose to the baby if they occur in breast milk. Also, doctors, if they discover an adverse effect of a medication, can send the information to MedWach, a reference page that is accessed worldwide.
It is very interesting what he says about the medications that should be prescribed to infants. First, medication should only be prescribed if they are strictly necessary. Second, we should look for those that have less risk among the possible ones. Third, consider the plasma concentrations of the medications in the milk according to the child's age. And finally, prescribe that they are taken after the tetada or before the child has a long period of sleep.
Colds, real situations
Normally we are going to meet the opposite situation, the bad baby and us infected. In that case, the closeness and attention for the child will help to find strength to recover or endure the inconvenience.
In some cases, however, we could decide not to have it in the same bed, but if stuck to it to continue attending to it, especially if we talk about very high fevers that leave us incapacitated to have normal reactions or if the medications produce drowsiness. It does not usually happen, but it should not be ruled out. We always have to practice it safely.
I, in all my lactation, if there were two moments in which I decided to get him out of my bed and have him close but with the help of another person to bring him to breastfeed, once when I took some very strong painkillers by removing a tooth that they left me stunned and another, in which, with the flu, it was over 39 degrees and I didn't feel safe either, because I confirmed that the medications were compatible. On other occasions I have taken antibiotics, but we also look for the safest option to continue breastfeeding.
If we have a cold, we can continue to breastfeed or collect without this entailing an added risk in the vast majority of cases. In addition, our baby is not aware that we are ill, therefore, except as I said, special cases, our constant presence will also need.
