Sore throat/dry nose while breastfeeding

[holmenkoll]

Hei I need some advice. I am EBF. Since postpartum I have had:
Swollen lips once
Stye in my left eye once
Now I am 16 weeks pp I am having sore throat on and off. Dry nose on and off.
I got so worried that I took bloodtest. Everything looks normal. I drink water but it doesn't help so much. I have dry lips and it doesn't help the cold weather. Can someone enlight me. I can not sleep so well because of my throat. Thanks.

I don't think it's anything to do with breastfeeding, necessarily. Could it be an allergy? What does your GP say?

I have an appointment on Monday. I have had Two Allergy blood test. Negative. :(

It may not be related but could you be extremely thirsty? I find that I develop extreme thirst as soon as my baby latches on. The amount I need to drink to feel well is fairly huge.

You are possibly also very run down. Make sure you are resting as much as possible during the day, take your BFing multivitamins and drink a pint of water for every feed. Also ensure you are eating enough.

I had a normal cold a few weeks back and it hit me like a brick. It was absolutely hideous and hung around for weeks.

I agree with the previous poster, mayne you’re run down? I’m only just starting to feel like my system and body are returning back to ‘normal’ 9 months postpartum. I have a dry nose too. I try to get a balanced-ish diet and I’ve continued to take pregnancy/postnatal vitamins. I don’t have the sore throat you’ve mentioned, though it does get very dry and sometimes scratchy at night so I have to always have water on my bedside table.

Thanks girls for your comments, Yes I am exhausted, I don't feel thirsty, I drink water between 1,5 - 2 L per day. I eat quite good, everything I eat is made at home, not processed food at all. I am control freak when it comes to food, so I like to have control of what I eat. Maybe my body need time, I feel like an Alien, like my body has not be able to manage the whole pregnancy and the postpartum.

Hei Girls, I will keep updating this post as a reference to someone that could experience the same. Please if you are also able to keep updating I will really appreciate it. (.).

Will do! How are you getting on, OP?

1.5l - 2 l is what they recommend anyway. If you're breastfeeding you could drink more and it will help a bit I bet.

Sounds like you're run down. My mum would suggest 'a tonic' by which she would mean floradix or something.

Giving birth and having a newborn is a massive, massive physical effort. Nobody really tells you how much it ruins your body - at least for a bit.

If you're able, go back to bed with the baby and stay there. As long as the baby is safe they don't really need to do anything at this age do they?

Hei. I agreed with you, having a new born is a massive, massive physical effort. I told my doctor that I felt that my body has disappointed me in certain way. Since birth I have gone from one symptom to another :( Thanks for your comment. I just try to live the day by day and hope for the best.

Well I am back to update this thread. My baby will be nearly one year old. After so many bloodtest and a doctor that got in shock all my symptoms were because of Postpartum thyroiditis, after 4 straws of blood the diagnose was confirmed. I cried, because I thought I was getting crazy. I know what are my optimal thryoid values but even when I got tested one, two, three, fourth month pp with optimal values and no antibodies it was in the fifth month (December) that finally my blood test shows another story. Overactive thyroid but my pulse was normal. In March I started the underactive phase. In May my TSH went borderline TSH: 3,5 (reference 0,5 - 3,6). T4 and T3 were pretty good and anti-TPO negativ. The only symptom I have now is a bit of sore throat that comes and goes, The last test of TSH shows that is moving toward my optimal value. I went from 3,5 to 2,8. My next blood test will be at the end of July 2018. Crossing fingers. I never used medicine since my Doctor didnt think it was necessary and I agreed on going through all the symptoms if I could avoid medicine. It has not been easy, it has been tought but am still breastfeeding and my baby is a sweet smiling boy. I will keep updating.