What medicine should I take for allergies during breastfeeding?

If you have allergies during breastfeeding, you should take anti-allergic drugs. You need to stop breastfeeding during the medication period. After stopping breastfeeding, you need to use a breast pump to drain the remaining milk in the breast to avoid breast congestion and affect women's health.

During the lactation period, when the breasts secrete milk, the body's resistance and immunity are relatively weak. If you come into contact with substances that are prone to allergies, you may experience an allergic reaction, accompanied by symptoms such as skin itching and rashes on the skin. You need to go to the hospital's dermatology department to check for allergens. You must immediately isolate the allergens and take loratadine antihistamines under the guidance of a doctor, which can have an anti-allergic effect. If the itching symptoms are more severe, you can also use calamine lotion to clean the local skin, which can relieve itching and swelling. When an allergic reaction occurs, taking anti-allergic drugs will affect the quality of milk. At this time, you cannot continue breastfeeding and you need to discharge the remaining milk in the breast. During this period, you also need to follow the doctor's advice and use the drugs in a standardized manner under the guidance of a doctor.

During the treatment, you should also adjust your diet. It is best to eat light and easily absorbed foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, which will not increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, and can also speed up the skin's metabolism and play an auxiliary therapeutic role. Breastfeeding can only be done after the drug is completely metabolized and excreted from the body.