Breast milk is the best food for babies. Speaking of the benefits of breast milk, it is endless for a day and a night.
In addition to giving baby food rations, many mothers think breast milk has many [magical] effects: does the baby have eczema? Just wipe it with breast milk. Is there much eye excrement in the baby? Just drop breast milk in your eyes. Bathing the baby with breast milk can also make the skin whiter…
Does breast milk really have these miraculous effects? Pediatrician Ding Jiafeng sighed: Breast milk is really good, but using it like this will really pit the baby.
Can breast milk wipe face treat eczema?
There are many babies troubled by eczema. Eczema is related to allergy, and it is always not good over and over again, which makes people anxious.
Some mothers will give their babies breast milk to treat eczema, but breast milk is really ineffective for eczema, and rubbing it on their babies’ faces will increase the burden on their skin.
1. Increasing eczema
Breast milk is easy to breed bacteria and viruses. Repeated smearing on babies is ineffective for eczema and may even lead to aggravation of eczema.
Step 2 Block pores
Breast milk contains a lot of large particulate substances such as protein and fat. The baby’s skin is delicate and metabolic. Breast milk is often smeared on the skin, which is easy to block the baby’s pores and cause sweat adenitis, sebaceous adenitis and folliculitis.
Step 3 Induce allergy
At the same time, proteins and other substances contained in breast milk may also induce allergic reactions to baby’s skin, which is not conducive to eczema recovery.
Baby eczema should do this:
Step 1 Take a serious bath
Take a bath every day or every other day to help your baby clean his skin. When taking a bath, pay attention to the appropriate water temperature, not too hot, and wash for 10-15 minutes each time. It is recommended to use low sensitivity and non-irritating shower gel. If your baby’s skin is dry, reduce the frequency of using shower gel.
Step 2 Moisturize
After taking a bath, dry your skin in time, and immediately apply moisturizers and emollients suitable for your baby’s constitution, at least twice a day.
3. Hormone therapy
Should be after consulting a doctor, follow the doctor’s advice to use hormone suitable for baby’s eczema. Baoma Baopa does not have to worry about hearing hormone. Hormones are an economical, convenient and effective method to treat baby’s eczema, and skin absorption is very small. Short-term local use of hormone will not have side effects.
Can breast milk eye drops diminish inflammation?
Some babies have a lot of eye excrement. The old man said that breast milk drops can [diminish inflammation]. Some even said that adults’ eyes are injured by electric welding, and breast milk drops can also relieve symptoms.
However, breast milk does not [diminish inflammation], but has a high protein content. If the eyeball mucosa cannot stand the stimulation of high concentration of protein, it may not only fail to heal, but also cause inflammation or allergy.
The baby has a lot of eye excrement, which may be conjunctivitis or lacrimal passage blockage. It is recommended to go to the hospital in time and do not delay the illness with breast milk drops.
Can breast milk bathe and apply face whiten?
Many mothers will squeeze some breast milk into the baby when taking a bath, feeling that it is as good for the skin as milk bath! The baby’s skin is whiter and tender!
As mentioned earlier, the baby’s skin is tender and pores are easily blocked by protein and fat in breast milk, so it is not recommended.
Can’t I dilute it and put less breast milk?
Nutrients such as protein in breast milk, like milk, belong to macromolecular substances. These macromolecules cannot be absorbed by the skin and have no effect on regulating melanin metabolism. Neither breast milk bath nor milk bath, nor adults nor children, can achieve whitening effect.
Is it okay to make breast milk soap?
Breast milk soap may be potentially dangerous.
Breast milk is easy to deteriorate. If no anti-corrosion measures are taken during the production process of breast milk soap or the production process is not standardized, bacteria will easily breed.
Moreover, if the milk provider is unhealthy, such as the mother suffering from hepatitis B, AIDS, syphilis and other diseases, using breast milk as skin care products may also spread hepatitis B, AIDS and other diseases.
Can breast milk be given to adults to enhance resistance?
In addition to using it for babies, there is also a magical effect of breast milk, which has to be taken out. By the way, many people will drink breast milk by themselves or for the elderly, believing that it can be [greatly supplemented].
It is true that breast milk is nutritious and contains a lot of immune proteins, but this is relative to infants whose autoimmune system is not perfect and cannot eat other foods.
For adults whose immune system is well developed, this immune protein and nutrition are not enough.
It is easy to understand by comparing food. The protein content of breast milk is generally less than 2%, while that of ordinary lean meat is about 20%.
Therefore, drinking breast milk for adults can neither provide sufficient nutrition nor significantly enhance immunity.
The best function of breast milk is milk baby.
To sum up, breast milk does not have so many magical effects. Breast milk is produced for babies, so it is the best to give them a drink.
What should I do if I can’t finish drinking too much breast milk? The surplus can be saved for a rainy day. The more breast milk is saved, the easier it will be for mothers to some extent.
Breast milk can be stored as follows:
1. It is better to use plastic products suitable for freezing and well sealed for breast milk freezing storage, followed by glass products, and it is better not to use metal products;
2. Do not directly heat breast milk when thawing. You can rinse the sealed bag with a milk warmer or cold water and then slowly add hot water to heat it.
3. Thawed breast milk must be eaten within 24 hours and should not be frozen again.
At present, there are some hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Xi’an and other places in China that have professional breast milk banks. It is really impossible to eat all the breast milk. Breast milk can also be donated to the breast milk bank to help more babies who need breast milk.