Many traditional customs and habits are unacceptable and even considered harmful to health. For example, many women who have given birth will be asked to drink old hen soup. Usually we all eat roosters, and few people eat old hens. This old hen will make everyone think that it may be back to milk, resulting in insufficient food for the baby. Let's introduce the old hen soup to you in a scientific way.

Will the old hen soup return to milk?

The answer is: yes!

Folk have the habit of drinking old hen soup after delivery, which is considered to be beneficial to women and lactation. In fact, the concentration of estrogen in postpartum maternal blood is greatly reduced, and prolactin will play a role in promoting milk secretion. Hens contain certain estrogen. Drinking chicken soup too early and too much after delivery will increase the estrogen in the blood, weaken or even disappear the role of prolactin, and affect milk secretion.

You can't eat hens after delivery. For a period of time after delivery, when the milk secretion is normal and sufficient, it can still be eaten. But as far as lactation is concerned, chicken soup is not as good as chicken soup, and the androgen contained in roosters has anti-estrogen effect. Cock testicles contain a small amount of androgen, so if a pregnant woman eats stewed cock, her milk will increase along with her testicles. Moreover, the cock contains less fat than the hen, so it is not easy to get fat, and the baby will not cause indigestion and diarrhea because of the high fat content in milk. Eating cock after delivery is good for both mother and baby.

Maternal women also pay attention to drinking chicken soup.

First of all, in order to minimize the fat in the soup, you can choose to peel the cock or skim off the oil slick when cooking the soup. Because high fat content will affect maternal appetite, it is also easy to cause breast duct blockage, which is not conducive to lactation, and frequent drinking will also cause obesity;

Secondly, don't drink a lot of soup, especially within one week after delivery, otherwise it will increase the burden of maternal heart, kidney and other organs, and it will easily lead to milk deposition, causing breast pain and even acute mastitis;

Third, although soup is nutritious, the nutrition is mainly in meat, so you should eat meat when drinking soup.

What are the foods for postpartum lactation?

Barley tea: 40 grams of barley is drunk as water every day, and milk can be returned in a few days.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum: Zanthoxylum bungeanum 12 g, add 500 ml of water, boil to 250 ml, add 30 g of brown sugar, once taken, it can generally relieve milk rise, and can be returned to milk twice.

Leek: you can eat more leeks during the milk return period to help you return to milk.

Is it good to drink old hen soup during lactation? Is old hen soup milk?

Bitter gourd: Bitter gourd is a cold food. Eating more helps to restore milk.

Green tea: it can replace the boiled water when weaning and help mother to return to milk.

Crab: Crab is a cold food, which can restore milk.

Hawthorn: raw hawthorn and dried hawthorn can be milked.

Raw rice buds: take it with 40 grams of raw rice buds with water, which usually takes effect in two days.

Cold and spicy things: beer, tea, Huoxiang Zhengqi water, chocolate, etc.

Pickled sauerkraut: purslane, cucumber, wax gourd, bitter gourd, wax gourd, etc.

In addition, there are hawthorn, orange, grapefruit, pomegranate, olive, plum, American ginseng, ginseng, dandelion, leek, white radish, beans, Malantou, carrot and so on. Pumpkin, Toona sinensis, mushroom, eggplant, lotus root, bamboo shoot, day lily, Chinese cabbage, fennel, monosodium glutamate, mint, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, fermented soybean, maltose, sweet potato, corn, glutinous rice, tea, pork liver, vinegar, sesame, pigeon, cereal and so on.