World breastfeeding week: These days world breastfeeding week is going on. This week is observed to tell new mothers the importance of breastfeeding. Breastfeeding, both mother and baby are essential. Being a mother is the most special experience of every woman’s life. The duty of every woman increases for the physical development of her baby. For a newborn baby, mother’s milk is similar to nectar for 6 months, so it is necessary to breastfeed.
If the woman is HIV positive here, then this journey can be a bit difficult. In such a situation, many precautions have to be taken regarding the health of the mother and her child. If the doctor’s care is taken, then HIV positive mother can also breastfeed her newborn.
Here, Dr. Meera Pathak, Senior Medical Officer and female pathologist of CHC Bhangel of Noida has given information about the rules of breastfeeding HIV positive mother. Where expert Pathak told that HIV positive mothers are divided into two categories – ‘Lo Risk Mother’ and ‘High Risk Mother’. It includes women under “Lo Risk Mother” in which three things are found. First, the woman has started her treatment at least four weeks before the delivery, ie antiretroviral therapy (ART), second, the effect of the virus in her blood should be negligible, that is, the viral load should not be detected and third, there is no problem in the woman’s breasts, such as cracks, swelling or bleeding etc. If these three things are in a woman, then she is considered ‘low risk’.
Apart from this, when it comes to the category of “High Risk Mother”, it includes women who HIV Those who are suffering from those who have started their medicines around delivery, or whose blood is still active in the blood, ie viral load detect. Apart from this, if the woman has started medicines at the right time, but even if there is any problem in the breasts, she falls in the ‘high risk’ category. ”
Here, women falling in the category of low risk mother and high risk mother have rules for feeding children. Regarding this, Dr. Meera Pathak says, “The rules of feeding are different for both types of mothers. If the woman is ‘low risk’, she is clearly advised to feed her child only to feed her child, which is called ‘exclusive breastfeeding’. She is also told that she does not give the child’s milk together, because she does not give up the child’s intestines and do not give the child’s milk together, because she does not give the child’s milk together and the mother’s milk can be done together. The risk of reaching the body may increase. Such children are given a syrup and after six weeks they have HIV test. ”
It is said that if there are different rules of breastfeeding of women falling in the category of high risk mothers. According to this rule, formula milk is initially advised, but sometimes this milk can cause problems like diarrhea in children. Health experts tell that doctors exclusive in high risk women’s breastfeeding rules Breast feeding Let’s allow, but it also has a clear instruction that there should be no mix feeding. It is important to take care of it here that it can have a bad effect on health, not to give mother’s milk, formula with milk. Here, high risk children are given two types of syrup and after six weeks they are also done HIV test. ”
According to IANS
