How can I not infect a child if my mother is ill?

During the epidemic of influenza and other colds, it is very easy to "pick up" any virus. As a rule, adults become infected in public places - a polyclinic, a store or a transport. If a small child grows up in a house, in the absence of necessary precautions, the disease very quickly passes to him, because the children's organism is extremely susceptible to various infections.

Particularly high probability of getting sick from a baby, if his mother or another person, who spends most of the time with him, has caught a cold. In this article, we will tell you how not to infect a child if the mother is sick, and whether to stop breastfeeding while the disease is being treated .

How can I not infect a child if my mother is sick?

As a rule, the nursing mother, in order not to infect her child with a cold, refuses breastfeeding for the time of illness, because she is afraid to pass along with the milk viruses and microbes. This tactic of action is fundamentally wrong. In fact, the crumb should be sure to continue to breast-feed, if you have this opportunity, because together with her mother's milk, he will receive antibodies to fight the disease.

Meanwhile, if the nursing mother has caught cold so as not to infect the child, it is useful to follow such recommendations as:

• wear a face mask and change it more often;
• try to stay for a day away from his son or daughter, excluding feeding time;
• near the crib where the baby sleeps, you can hang a kind of beads from cloves of garlic;
• regularly ventilate the children's room and prevent the air temperature from rising to 22 degrees;
• with the aid of a humidifier or in other ways to ensure an air humidity of at least 40%;
• conduct daily wet cleaning;
• morning, afternoon and evening lubricate the baby's nose with oxolin ointment;
• Also in both nostrils, crumbs are useful three times a day to dig in a few drops of breast milk.