Natural Cure For Breast Feeding Problems

Breast feeding is an essential part of caring and nursing the newborn babies. Not only mother’s milk is the best food for the new born baby, but it makes baby well developed with a well developed immunity system. Although breast feeding is a natural and spontaneous process from a mother‘s and baby’s side there are some common problem of breast feeding process often witnessed. The article discusses the natural cure process of these problems.

Puffiness is a common issue in breast feeding problem. In this situation, due to activation of mammalian gland, inflammation takes place in breast and due to poor elasticity of skin the nipple area becomes sensitive. This makes for the mother to feed her baby with natural comfort.

Chamomile helps to restore normalcy in puffy breast and sensitive skin. Gentle massage with olive oil helps to remove the sensitivity of nipple region of breast.

Feeding baby within short interval helps to minimize the sensitivity of the lactating breast.

Plugged duct is a great problem in lactating breast; this problem occurs due to unconsumed left over milk in the breast. The left over milk blocks the ducts and creates unusual discomfort with the mother.

Cleansing breast with castor oil minimizes this problem and self examination is the best preventive for this problem. Whenever you will find white dots in the nipple, you need to feed your baby with that breast to clear the duct by the suction force of the baby.

Cracked nipple is another common problem with the lactating mothers. In this case treatment of nipple with honey and clarified butter helps to soothe the skin. Whenever the baby will sleep or not taking feed, apply honey and clarified butter combination in breast nipple and before feeding you need to clear you nipple minutely.

Mastitis is another recurring problem with the lactating mothers. In this problem the plugged duct gets infected and the infected breast gets swollen with abnormal redness. Pus secretion may be prevalent from the nipple duct with symptoms like nausea, vomiting, fever etc.

This is an emergency situation; in this case stop feeding the baby with the infected breast and consul a doctor at the earliest.

With the medicine you can take hot compress by towel and alfalfa juice to soothe the discomfort.

Low quantity milk is another problem with some cases. Consumption of fenugreek seeds with water/milk twice a day helps to improve breast milk quantity.