Breastfeeding tomatoes

The breastfeeding period is not only an exciting time, allowing mother and child to establish a special connection between them, but also a very crucial period, because the health and health of the baby depend on the products that the mother uses. Many doctors and specialists in breastfeeding advise women in labor not to follow a strict diet, but to eat a balanced diet so that the baby gets a lot of vitamins and nutrients.

Fresh fruits of tomatoes, as well as freshly made juice from them characterized by a mass of useful properties.

• Able to improve the functioning of the immune system of both mother and baby, because this product is abundant in vitamin C.
• They help to saturate the body with useful substances and microelements. For example, tomatoes contain folic acid, which is almost impossible to obtain from other foods that are eaten. It has a positive effect on the state of the circulatory system.
• Allow to strengthen the activity of the cardiovascular system.
• Perfectly affect the state of the nervous system, calming it. This is due to the presence of B vitamins in fresh tomatoes.
• They are characterized by anti-inflammatory effects, and are also able to exert an antibacterial effect, helping to cope with various diseases.
• Due to the contained vitamin K, they have a thinning effect on the blood, thereby minimizing the risk of blood clots.
• Since tomatoes contain a large amount of choline, they are characterized by a positive effect on the proportion of hemoglobin in the blood, increasing it.

• Help to normalize blood pressure.
• Beneficial effect on the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, reducing the risk of constipation. Regularly eating these fruits has a mild laxative effect, contributing to better bowel movement.
• Strengthening the metabolic processes in the body, tomatoes can lose weight, eliminating the extra pounds that a woman could gain during pregnancy.
• The body's water-salt balance is normalized. This has a positive effect on milk production during HB.
• They have a diuretic effect, activating the activity of the kidneys.
• Suspend the growth of malignant tumors, as there are antioxidants in tomatoes.

Regular consumption of tomatoes contributes to the production of serotonin (the hormone of joy, which is responsible for the emotional state of a woman). Many women face a postpartum depression after giving birth to a baby. Therefore, it is very important to eat foods that have the natural properties of antidepressants. This will allow the nursing mother to more quickly cope with this condition, as well as increase her physical activity, and the woman will more easily overcome the apathy and lack of desire to do something.

Despite the fact that tomatoes have a lot of positive qualities, there are certain kinds of contraindications, in the case of which there is no need to eat tomatoes.

You can not use this vegetable in the following cases.

• If a woman suffers from urolithiasis or has biliary tract pathology. Eating tomatoes can cause kidney stones or gallbladder.Characterized by a diuretic effect, the fruits of tomatoes can cause the movement of stones.
• If a nursing mother has a tendency to various allergic manifestations. Please note that in some cases, allergies are inherited, so the baby may also be too susceptible to tomatoes. In this case, the woman should eat with great care, seriously approaching the choice of food and observing certain restrictions.
• If the baby is experiencing severe colic. Many crumbs in the first months of life suffer from increased gas formation in the intestines. Mom's consumption of tomatoes can exacerbate this situation.

Eating tomatoes regularly can increase acidity in the stomach, triggering the development of heartburn in the mother, as a result, irritating the baby's mucous membrane. Under the ban is also the use of a variety of sauces based on tomatoes and ketchups, as they contain a huge amount of a variety of dyes, flavors, components that improve the taste. All of them are of chemical origin. Not only do they not carry any useful qualities, they can also harm the baby. Therefore, such products can not be consumed by a woman while breastfeeding.

If a nursing mother plans to eat these vegetables during breastfeeding, then this should be done with extreme caution, gradually including the product in your diet. Experts involved in breastfeeding, advised for the first time to use a small piece of fresh tomatoes. It is better to do this in the morning, so that the woman has time to track the possible reaction of the baby to this product.

The remaining food should remain unchanged. This approach will help a woman to determine if her child has allergic manifestations of tomatoes. If, for 24 hours, the newborn does not have a rash, colic or abdominal distension, this indicates that his body has taken the new vegetable perfectly, and you can safely enter it in the diet.

Particular attention should be paid to the vegetables themselves: the best option is to eat local tomatoes. That is, they need to buy only when the season began, and the tomatoes have ripened on the beds. Since fruits grown in greenhouse conditions, or brought from other countries, may contain an abundance of nitrates, the use of which is extremely undesirable for both mother and her baby.

Age limits are due to the fact that the gastrointestinal tract of a newborn is not sufficiently formed, so it will be very difficult for it to digest fiber and sufficiently coarse fibers contained in the fruits of tomatoes.

The use of tomatoes by the mother who feeds the baby, whose age has barely reached 1-2 months, can provoke the appearance of a large number of small bodies. In addition, the chair may be broken and diarrhea may develop. Doctors recommend to start eating yellow tomatoes first, as they belong to less allergenic foods due to the low content of lycopene (this substance gives the tomatoes a rich red color). In these fruits there is a smaller proportion of acid, lactating mothers with high acidity of the stomach can eat them.

It is also better to give up fried tomatoes, because during heat treatment they lose a lot of useful qualities. It is very important not to abuse tomatoes, eating them no more than 3 pieces daily. Of these, you can make a salad, this vegetable goes well with vegetable or olive oil. Many add a little sour cream in a salad. From fresh tomatoes you can squeeze the juice.

Please note: you can drink no more than 1 cup of tomato juice per day. In any case, including tomatoes for food, a nursing mother must carefully monitor the reaction and health of her child so as not to harm him. If the mother noticed allergic manifestations, then tomatoes should be completely excluded from the food for at least 2 months, and only after a long period of time will it be possible to try again to eat this product.

The use of pickled tomatoes is prohibited, as this product contains vinegar, and other preservatives may be present if it was purchased in a store. Vinegar and seasonings in the marinade can greatly change the taste of milk, and the child simply refuses to breastfeed.

Salted tomatoes can be eaten, but you need to know the measure, since eating large amounts of salt is highly undesirable for a baby. In addition, this type of tomato due to the high salt content in it is able to retain fluid in the body. This has a negative effect on lactation, reducing the amount of milk in the mother.

Unfortunately, not every nursing mother can eat tomatoes grown in their own garden beds. Most women buy tomatoes on the market or in the store, so you need to be very careful and thorough in the process of choosing this product.

Stopping the choice on this or that fruit, follow the simple rules.

• It is necessary to gently press on the surface of the tomato. If the peel remains unharmed and the surface becomes wrinkled, then it is worth refraining from purchasing such a product.
• It is necessary to slightly toss the tomato over a hard surface, for example, above the table top. If the fruit has easily bounced off the surface and the skin has not burst, it means that a large amount of nitrates is present in it.
• It is necessary to evaluate the fruit from the inside, cutting it. If the flesh has a pale pink color, and there are white streaks - this will be a clear indication of the presence of chemicals that were used to grow this vegetable.
• You should carefully examine the color and integrity of the skin. Do not buy unripe fruit, as well as tomatoes with traces of rot. It is better not to buy tomatoes, which are characterized by red-green or red-orange color. This suggests that tomatoes are not ripe enough.
• Avoid buying tomatoes with black spots, specks or cracks.
• It is necessary to refrain from purchasing fruits whose skin is very firm and similar to plastic.

A woman during HB should eat only high-quality and healthy food. This will help her to quickly get in shape after the birth, as well as to saturate the fragile small body of the child with useful substances.

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