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Breast
Milk | Management
of Excess Milk | Breast
Abscess
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Inadequacy
of Milk | Important
Factors
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Diet, activity, psychological factors, nutritional factors, ill health and diseases in the mother
during pregnancy affect the quality of her breast milk.
- Excess of sweet curds, buffalo's meat, alcohol, jaggery or fish affects the breast milk.
- Too hot or too cold and too little or too much food also vitiates the milk.
- The milk of the mother who takes stale, fermented, heavy,
unbalanced, incompatible or overcooked food or diet not
suiting her constitution or to which she is not used to, gets vitiated.
- Salty, sour and pungent food and indigestion in mother also vitiates her milk.
- The mother who is under or over active, indulges in abnormal activities and gets tired or fatigued, does not secrete milk of good quality.
- Sorrow, anger, anxiety, worry and other psychological
disturbances affect the breast milk.
- The milk of obese, under-weight or pregnant mothers is not conducive to the health of the baby.
- Ill-health and diseases in the mother such as fever also vitiate breast milk.
- Exertion, working in hot sun, hot weather, insufficient or
excessive sleep in the afternoon, laziness or not working at all affect
the quality of milk.
- Suppression or induction of natural urges like
micturition, defaecation, sneezing, etc. also result in deterioration of quality of milk.
- Trauma to the breast, breast abscess and infection of breast are important causes of vitiated breast milk.
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- Intake of too little or too light a diet, consuming more pungent, bitter and astringent dietetic articles and excessive physical exertion by the mother
increases vata dosa of breast milk.
- Consuming excessive sour, salty and pungent items, working in
a hot and humid environment or excessive anger increases pitta dosa in breast milk.
- Intake of too much of sweet, sour and salty food and excess of sleep and rest
increases kapha dosa in breast milk.
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The following table gives the characteristics of breast milk vitiated with
Vata, Pitta and Kapha dosas and their effects on the baby and compares them with characteristics and effect of ideal milk :
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Properties of milk |
Vatta |
Kapha |
Pitta |
Ideal milk |
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Colour |
Darkish or reddish. |
Bluish, yellowish or reddish tinge. |
Dense white. |
White. |
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Taste |
Sweet and slightly astringent or
bitter or tasteless. |
Sweet and slightly bitter, sour or
pungent taste. |
Very sweet with slightly saltish
taste. |
Natural and sweet. |
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A mother with vitiated milk should take the following diet:
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- Cereals : Rice,
Finger millet (ragi), Bamboo seeds, Barley (jau), Wheat.
- Pulses : Green
gram (moong), Lentil (masura), Horse gram (kulattha) and
Green peas (matar) in the
form of soups.
- Meat : Rabbit,
grey partridge etc., in the form of soups
- Vegetables : Brinjal,
Lemon, emblic myrobalan (amalaka), Bamboo shoot, Snake
gourd, Green peas (matar), Onions
- Spices : Ginger, Pepper,
Long pepper (pippali), Rock salt (saindhava), Salt,
Garlic.
- Wines : Mild
- Mutton soup, vegetable-soups and soups of pulses should be
medicated with Ginger, Pepper and Long pepper.
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The family
way
