Now people's diet tastes more and more heavy. In contrast, southerners prefer to eat spicy food, especially people in southwest areas such as Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou. Pepper is an essential ingredient in daily life. It's good to eat some pepper properly, for example, it can stimulate appetite, but you must not eat too much. So can lactating women eat some spicy food occasionally?

Can you eat spicy food occasionally during lactation?

You can't eat Chili during lactation.

Reasons why you can't eat Chili during lactation: Mothers should try to eat less Chili and be careful. Pepper, a spicy and warm food, is easy to cause breast-feeding mothers to get angry, causing aphtha, constipation or hemorrhoids, and it will affect babies through milk, aggravate hot air and easily cause constipation and other symptoms.

Mothers are advised not to eat Chili, garlic, leek, fennel and wine within 1 month after delivery. In addition to eating less spicy food, lactating mothers should also eat less cold and hard food to prevent damage to the spleen and stomach and affect digestive function. Choose light, digestible and diversified foods in postpartum diet, which is very conducive to the recovery of the mother and provide high-quality milk for the baby.

Mothers should remember that what mothers eat during lactation will directly affect the baby's rations. It is advisable to eat light food during lactation and eat less spicy, spicy, sour, cold and hot food; During lactation, the diet should be balanced and the nutrition should be properly matched. Don't be picky about food, and don't eat junk food without nutrition.

Why can't you eat spicy food during lactation?

Breast-feeding mothers should eat as little pepper as possible and be careful, because pepper, a spicy and warm food, is not only easy to hurt body fluid and gas, consume blood, aggravate qi and blood weakness, lead to constipation, but also easily enter the baby's body through milk, affecting the baby's health. In addition, mothers need to fast garlic, leeks, fennel, peppers and other foods.

Breastfeeding is not to eat spicy food, but to eat less spicy food, such as leeks, young garlic shoots, peppers, fennel and wine. Breast-feeding mothers should try to eat less irritating food. Irritant food is not only easy to damage body fluid, consume qi and blood, aggravate qi and blood weakness, lead to constipation, but also easy to enter the baby's body through milk, affecting the baby's health. However, a small amount of condiments, such as pepper and sour vinegar, are still acceptable.