Medicines that you taking while lactation or breastfeeding always have a chance to affect the baby because they can go into the breast milk. So before you take any pharmaceutical medicines, always ask a doctor first before you take the medicines. The breast feeding mothers always tend to catch a cold and fever. At that time the safest possible remedy is the natural remedies. So eat some garlic, drink turmeric milk, drink hot water or hot lemon juice with some honey in it. Drink tea with crushed methi leaves because this can help to increase your breast milk supply. Breast milk tends to go down when you have an infection. So crush some methi leaves or methi seeds in your tea. That will increase the breast milk. When you do resort to some pharmaceutical remedies, always keep in mind a few general concepts. Try to take the medicine after you finished nursing. Try to take as little the medicine as possible. Always have one single pill rather than having 2 or 3 pills combined. Medicines have been classified according to safety and those which are safe in breast feeding women. The safest category is L1 category medicine and these contain paracetamol and ibuprofen. These are okay to take in breast feeding. Ibuprofen and associated medicines are not safe in third trimester of pregnancy. So for a fever these are good. If you have a cough and you want to suppress the cough, choose a cough syrup that has guaifenesin and it is a L2 category medicines, which means that it has been shown that it is safe for the baby and it does not cross into the breast, milk, but it does not cause a strong level of evidence as in L1. Pseudoephedrine which is also a cough medicine is also not considered quite safe. The level of evidence is not quite strong. So try natural remedies, try paracetamol which are safe for fevers and try cough syrups which have guaifenesin.
