Nursing mothers simply need to include fortified foods in their diet. If you would like to eat berries such as cranberries, lingonberries and sea buckthorn, you should consult your doctor, as they can cause an allergic reaction during breastfeeding.
The body of any baby in the first months after birth is so weak that even the most harmless at first glance components can cause severe allergies. Moreover, it is not at all necessary for a child to consume foods that cause an allergic reaction, since all allergens penetrate into the infant's body together with his mother's milk. Therefore, pediatricians recommend that young mothers who feed babies with their milk follow a special hypoallergenic diet.
What is a hypoallergenic diet?
Firstly, nursing mothers are strictly prohibited from smoking or drinking alcoholic beverages of any strength. Prohibited foods include those that contain the strongest allergens: crayfish, mackerel, crabs and chocolate.
You can not use a nursing mother and drinks that stimulate the very weak nervous system of the baby. These drinks include coffee, as well as very strong black tea. All these recommendations must be followed even in cases where the child is completely healthy. If the baby already has an allergic reaction to any foods, then the nursing mother needs to give up some other foods that can be classified as potential allergens, for example, delicious fish dishes, honey, granulated sugar, nuts, chicken eggs, smoked meats, milk, tropical fruits, raspberries, strawberries and all citrus fruits without exception.
Cranberries, lingonberries and sea buckthorn in the diet of a nursing mother
Many inexperienced mothers often wonder whether to include sea buckthorn berries, cranberries, lingonberries and food made from them in their menu. On the one hand, these berries can be considered fully the strongest allergens, and on the other, they are a real storehouse of all and trace elements that are necessary for the recovery of a young mother's body after pregnancy.
In addition, these fruits have a rich composition that would allow the baby to develop much faster. Pediatricians recommend at first to be very careful with lingonberries, cranberries and sea buckthorn.
It is also recommended to consume only a few berries. After a while, when the baby's body adapts to the composition of these berries, it will be possible to prepare delicious nutritious and fruit drinks from cranberries and sea buckthorn. Lingonberries can be added to pies or consumed fresh.
What are the beneficial properties of these berries?
It can be noted that cranberries and lingonberries are favorite foods of many pregnant women. Fruit drinks from these berries help to remove excess fluid from the body, thus reducing the likelihood of puffiness. In addition, lingonberry and cranberry fruit drinks are considered the best prophylactic agent against varicose veins and thrombophlebitis.
These fruits are an excellent, completely harmless natural antibiotic and antipyretic agent. That is why berries and fruit drinks from them are prescribed for various colds and flu.
As for sea buckthorn, the fruits of this plant help to strengthen the health and immunity of not only a nursing mother, but also her baby. Sea buckthorn is recommended to be consumed in small quantities and to increase lactation in young mothers.
