Will drinking honey during breastfeeding reduce milk production?

Becoming a mother is a very happy thing, but new mothers have so many things to learn and pay attention to. Sometimes they really want to become a superman for their baby. Many mothers have given up a lot for their babies, fearing that they will irritate the baby and dare not be cautious about anything, especially during breastfeeding. It is said on the Internet that drinking honey during breastfeeding will stop milk production. Is this true? Is there any scientific basis?

You can eat honey during breastfeeding. Honey is a nutritious food. The fructose and glucose in honey are easily absorbed by the human body and are suitable for consumption during lactation. The medicinal effects of honey include clearing away heat and detoxifying, moisturizing and relieving pain. If constipation occurs after delivery, you can drink honey mixed with cold boiled water on an empty stomach every morning to help with bowel movements.

Although honey has the above-mentioned medicinal effects, it may also be contaminated with botulinum toxin during the process of collecting pollen and making honey. The food eaten by breastfeeding mothers will be passed to their children through breast milk. Therefore, it is recommended not to consume it frequently during breastfeeding.

Honey preparation during lactation:

Egg and honey tea. Postpartum women need to breastfeed their babies and must not be attacked by cold. They need to eat some food that can promote lactation and keep warm. The common practice among the people is to give egg and honey tea to women in confinement.

Ingredients: 1 gram of green tea, 2 eggs, 25 grams of honey. (Folk remedy)

Method: Add 300 ml of water and bring to a boil, then add green tea, eggs and honey and cook until the eggs are cooked. Take once a day after breakfast, 45 days as a course of treatment.

Efficacy: Used for postpartum care.

Honey fruit porridge, this porridge has the effect of refreshing and moistening the lungs, helping food and nourishing the stomach, and it tastes fresh and refreshing. It is suitable for breastfeeding mothers to drink some honey-based nutritional products, because honey contains a variety of nutrients essential to the human body and can improve postpartum loss of appetite.

Ingredients: 2 apples, 2 pears, 100g glutinous rice, 5g wolfberry

Seasoning: 1 tsp honey

Method: Wash the japonica rice and cook it into porridge. Wash the wolfberries, peel the apples and pears and cut them into small cubes; add the wolfberries and diced fruits into the porridge, bring to a boil, and then cool slightly before serving.

There are many counterfeiting methods on the market now, so it is difficult to identify the authenticity of honey by only one method. By combining the following methods, many fake honeys can be eliminated.

First: look at the gloss and viscosity.

The first way to distinguish real honey from fake one is to look at its gloss and viscosity. Good honey is clear in color and shiny like oil. There is little vibration when you shake the honey bottle. When you stop shaking, the honey hanging on the wall of the bottle will slowly flow down.

Second: Invert the honey bottle. High-quality honey has a low water content and a sticky texture. If you turn the sealed honey bottle upside down, you will find that the air trapped at the bottle mouth is difficult to float up and form bubbles.

Third: Pull "Miss". Use a small spoon or toothpick to stir some honey and stretch it outwards. Real honey can usually be pulled out into thin and transparent "honey threads", and the threads will automatically shrink and become ball-shaped after breaking.

Fourth: Grind the particles. When you buy natural "crystallized honey" that is milky white or light yellow, you can pick out the crystals and grind them on your fingertips. The crystals of real honey are fine and will melt completely.

Fifth: Taste . Honey tastes like honey, and sugar tastes like sugar. Pure honey is sweet and slightly sour, with a soft and delicate taste. The fake honey has a light honey flavor and a short aftertaste.