Coughs, colds and 1 year olds....

[tory79]

Ds is 1 on Friday. We are still bf. for the last year I have religiously taken nothing but the occasional paracetamol when I've been poorly, but both ds and I already have the first stinking colds of the season, and I'm assume it will be the first if many now we go to classes and groups etc.

So, now he's that bit older, is it still the case that I can't take anything when ill? I'm dreading winter already - ds seems very prone to colds, I think August was the only month he hasn't had one :-(

Think I only took paracetamol whilst bfing. Not sure if you can take echnciea

Just asked a pharmacist friend of mine and she said yes, just paracetamol still. This sucks!!!

It does suck, but you will get through it and if you are all getting loads of colds, maybe you could boost your immunity with other things like cutting down on stress/alcohol and doing some exercise? I say that with a huge as I'm rubbish at doing all of them .

What else do you want to take?

I've been told that the dodgy ingredient in Lemsip is something that reduces your supply. I don't have any problems with supply so I feel no qualms having the odd lemsip.

Any kind Of decongestant really! I can see I'm going to have to go for a steaming bowl of water!

What about olbas oil? You can use that.

Gosh, even olbas oil says on it that you should check with dr/pharmacist before using if you are bf......what? I don't understand why on earth that would be?!

Bollocks, they sell olbas oil FOR children! (over 3 mths...) I have some in DD's room right now & she just turned 1. The thing is they can't test anything of these things on breastfeeding mothers so they err on the side of caution. IMO. See disclaimer above.

I just had a Lemsip btw!