There is an opinion that beer promotes the production of milk. Some doctors even prescribe nursing to take brewer's yeast. However, recent studies in this direction prove that all this is just a myth - beer and lactation concepts are more incompatible than mutually beneficial. A regular, albeit small, intake of alcohol depresses the production of milk.
Beer lovers will insist that the drink contains such useful B vitamins and a whole bunch of trace elements. But tell me, can not you get all these useful substances from other sources? After all, beer, first of all, is an alcoholic drink.
Can you drink beer for your nursing mother?
Even 1 liter of low-alcohol beer (containing 5% alcohol) is capable of killing 6000 nerve cells. Ethyl alcohol in general is a poison that kills cells of the liver, kidneys, esophagus, causes irreparable damage to the genitals, causes hormonal imbalance.
Just think, that as long as the nursing mother drinks beer, the baby's liver very slowly takes out the alcohol that has arrived. From alcohol, a child suffers from a deterioration in sleep, a development disorder, in particular - the development of motor skills. A child whose mother regularly consumes beer and other alcoholic beverages lags behind in weight gain.
Moreover, beer, like any other alcohol, causes rapid addiction and dependence. In the future, a child fed by "beer milk" is more likely to face the problem of alcoholism.
Can I drink alcohol-free beer?
Can a lactating mother replace alcoholic beverages with nonalcoholic beverages? Well, first of all, alcohol is still present in alcohol-free beer, albeit in tiny quantities. Secondly, it is filled with a whole bouquet of chemistry, which is not useful to ordinary people, not to mention pregnant and lactating. After all, in order to make it non-alcoholic, the manufacturer needs a lot more "pokoldovat" over the drink.
But well, then Mom will enjoy your favorite drink, quench your thirst and ... rolling up your sleeves, will struggle to deal with the consequences of your whim. Today the situation is such that even healthy parents without bad habits can not have perfectly healthy children. Why aggravate the situation, if you can just wait a little?