Breastfeeding and Smoking

The ideal is not to combine breastfeeding and smoking!
And if the total cessation was not possible, you should at least respect these basic rules:
- Smoking after feeding or breast-feed a few hours (2-3 hours) after smoking a cigarette;
- Smoking outside of the dwelling and not next to the baby.
Nicotine, which goes directly into breast milk, decreases prolactin production in lactating women and causes delays in the ejection of milk during breastfeeding.

This then leads to a deterioration in the quantity and quality of breast milk the baby consumes nicotine (intoxication) and has difficulty feeding (weight loss).

The nicotine poisoning occurs in the baby form of agitation and irritability, vomiting, diarrhea (colic), and an accelerated heart rate.

The baby's body also mobilizes certain vitamins and nutrients to remove toxic substances in tobacco, which promotes a vitamin B12 deficiency (elimination of cyanide) and vitamin C in particular. The passage of nicotine in breast milk depends on the amount of tobacco consumed, and the time between smoking and breastfeeding.

However, the consequences of the presence of nicotine in breast milk in infants is less compared to the effect of passive smoking include respiratory infections and the onset of asthma. The disease is more common for non-breastfed by mothers smoking that breastfed babies even if the mother is smoking babies.