Can I eat watermelon during lactation?
In the process of breastfeeding, it is generally not recommended to eat watermelon. Watermelon is cold in nature and prone to diarrhea. If it is eaten, it will be transmitted to newborns through milk, which may lead to diarrhea in newborns. Normal or other fruits as the main, generally some apples, bananas or peaches can be taken orally. These foods can supplement the vitamin content and nutrition during lactation, and will not have any influence on newborns.
Precautions for eating watermelon during lactation
1. Don't eat iced watermelon.
It is best for new mothers who are breastfeeding not to eat "ice watermelon", because the temperature of watermelon stored in the refrigerator is too low, which may affect the quality of breast milk and thus affect the baby's health. At the same time, in order to avoid causing gastrointestinal diseases for themselves and their babies, mothers should choose fresh and ripe watermelons when eating watermelons and eat them at room temperature.
2. Do not eat watermelon for 3-4 days after delivery.
Women who have just given birth are weak. If they eat cold fruits or food, it will have a certain impact on their health and may leave sequelae. Not only watermelons, but also cool fruits such as pears and persimmons are not best not to eat.
3. It is not advisable to eat too much at once.
Watermelon is more than 94% water, but its sugar content is also very high. Watermelon with normal sweetness contains 5% sugar, so the calorie of watermelon is very high. The calorie of watermelon is 250 kcal/kg. That is to say, if you eat a big watermelon every day, it is about 8 to 10 kg, that is, you consume 1000 to 1250 kcal, while the calorie of an ordinary small bowl of rice is about 200 kcal. In other words, eating a watermelon is equivalent to eating five or six bowls of rice.
4. Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold.
If the breastfeeding mother catches a cold, you can't eat watermelon at the beginning of the cold. Both wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold belong to superficial symptoms at the initial stage, and should be treated by divergent methods to solve the pathogenic factors from the exterior. Chinese medicine believes that eating watermelon in the early stage of a cold is equivalent to taking drugs that clear internal heat, which will attract evil spirits and aggravate or prolong the course of the cold; However, when the cold gets worse, there are internal heat symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine. At the same time of normal medication, eating some watermelons properly will help you recover.