After childbirth, every woman, feeding the baby with her milk, strives to not deprive him of this valuable product as long as possible. But there are situations when the process of breast milk production needs to be reduced planned or urgently - it depends on the health of the baby or his mother. How to do everything right, without complications for the female body, we will consider in our article.
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Reduce to 1-1.5l the amount of liquid used by you per day. Refuse for a while from products that cause increased lactation: nuts, beer, carrot juice, milk and dairy products, teas with lemon balm, rosehip, fennel, anise, ginger, dried fruits, green tea.
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Demand gives birth to a proposal - this expression is very applicable to the situation with lactation. You can reduce the amount of milk produced by the body due to a decrease in the consumption of it by the child. Applying to the chest gradually cancel, replacing them with feeding or artificial mixture.
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If you need to lower the lactation urgently - cancel the breastfeeding at all. So that there is no stagnation and pressure in the mammary gland, the forming milk, slowly, leaving some portion in the chest. This can be done manually or using a breast pump. Such a technique will help regulate and control the lactation process, reducing or increasing milk production as necessary. If you do such accumulations constantly, the remainder of milk will burn out, and the production of it with the body will come to naught.
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Excess milk production can be reduced by resorting to folk methods. To do this, use the infusions prepared according to the annotation on the packaging, from hop cones, horsetails, lingonberries, staptons, mint leaves, alder, sage, parsley, nine, bear ears. They have a diuretic effect and significantly reduce the flow of milk. You need to drink such decoctions a little so as not to provoke allergic reactions in a child.
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Reduce the feeling of burning and overflowing the mammary glands using compresses of ice, cabbage leaves, camphor oil and herbs. Such bandages need to be done on an empty chest, they will help remove discomfort in it and will contribute to a decrease in milk formation. Using compresses, do not take hot bathtubs, wash only under a warm shower, do not bother your chest - warming its duct will contribute to the formation of milk.
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It is possible to use medications (renegos, norcolite, duphaston, ugly) to reduce lactation only with the permission of the attending physician. These hormonal drugs are able to leave a mark in the female body with their side effects. Self -medication in this case is unsafe, and the risk should be justified by the need to use them.
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Use the supporting and pressing mammary gland to the body of the bra, which change in a timely manner as the breast volumes decrease. It is not recommended to pull the mammary gland, as it is very harmful to the female body. If you decide to resort to such a method, then do it carefully, pulling out only devastated breasts and only with the help of special elastic bandages.
Using this knowledge, you can lower lactation, gradually accustoming your body to this, while retaining your health and emotional state of the child.
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