Pharmacies sell a lot of products that help stimulate lactation. Various teas, vitamin supplements, and medications can cope with the task, but their cost can be high.
A more affordable option is dill water. This remedy may be useful for a nursing mother.
Expert opinionNikolaeva Elena SergeevnaPracticing pediatrician.Ask a question
The main thing is to find out in advance about the features of its preparation, dosage, and duration of use.
Indications for use
Pediatricians recommend that women take dill water during lactation.
This drink has the following properties:
- increased lactation: milk production becomes more intense, its composition changes;
- elimination of unpleasant conditions that occur during breastfeeding;
- improvement of the baby’s condition (relieves colic, normalizes digestion, eliminates bloating, constipation, and other problems arising from the gastrointestinal tract);
- relieving spasms.
Beneficial features
Pharmaceutical dill (fennel) and ordinary greens contain vitamins and minerals:
- iron;
- zinc;
- potassium;
- calcium;
- phosphorus;
- carotene;
- folic acid;
- vitamins E, C, B.
The following beneficial properties of the product are highlighted:
- Hypoallergenic. Helps get rid of rashes, itching, eliminates the inflammatory process, promotes rapid healing of wounds.
- Expectorant. When you cough, the airways are cleared and mucus is expelled.
- Diuretic. Used to prevent the development of cystitis or treat it.
- Cleansing. Contains a large amount of fiber, which helps cleanse the intestines and eliminate bloating.
- Immunostimulating. Activates the body's protective functions, helps treat respiratory diseases, and recover after childbirth.
- Eliminate appetite problems. Stimulates the production of gastric juice.
- Normalizes metabolic processes.
- Lowers blood pressure.
- Prevents the development of cardiovascular pathologies.
This drink helps improve lactation, so breastfeeding is a reason to drink it.
Features of choosing ingredients
Pharmacy dill water is made from fennel essential oil. You can prepare a healing decoction at home from the seeds of this plant or use regular dill.
It is allowed to use dill, but the effect will be less pronounced.
It is recommended to purchase raw materials for the drink at a pharmacy or take it from your garden . Both green and dried dill seeds can be used.
What is dill water?
The medicine is prepared from dill or fennel. Pharmacy carminatives usually contain fennel, but at home you can prepare an infusion of regular dill.
Many babies experience stomach colic at 3-4 weeks of life. The baby reacts to this nuisance with a loud cry and makes young parents worry. At this time, the active formation of the digestive system and its colonization with beneficial microflora occurs.
As often happens, these beneficial transformations are accompanied by unpleasant sensations. Simple dill water for lactation will also eliminate bloating. A small part of the beneficial substances from the herbal drink taken by the mother will reach the baby during feeding, and this is quite enough to achieve the desired effect.
Recipes for making water that stimulates lactation
The recipe for lactation is quite simple: 1 tbsp. pour a glass of boiling water over dill seeds, stir, cover with a lid. Brew dill seeds for 15 minutes. After this time, the liquid is filtered through cheesecloth.
You need to drink the prepared broth in small sips about half an hour before feeding. Drink 1 glass of decoction per day, dividing the portion into 2 doses.
Dill water recipe for colic
The first months of a baby’s life are a rather difficult period. The children's digestive system is not yet able to produce enzymes in the required quantities, so gases begin to accumulate in the intestines.
The baby suffers from colic and bloating. There is sleep disturbance, frequent crying, and the baby tightens his legs.
To help the child, the mother needs to drink dill water. Fennel seeds are used: 1 tbsp. The raw materials are crushed, poured with boiling water (200 ml), and left for an hour.
Expert opinionAnastasia Mikhailovna MoiseevaPracticing general practitioner, 18 years of experience.
The prepared infusion is filtered.
The method of using the product is that the woman drinks 2 tbsp. liquids before meals. Therapy lasts about three days.
If the desired result was not achieved, the infusion can be given to the baby 2-3 times a day. Single dose – 15 drops on the baby’s tongue. Upon reaching one month of age, 1 tsp. dill water is added to baby formula or expressed milk.
Dill water: what is it?
Few people know that dill water is not an infusion of dill or dill seeds at all, it is a weak solution of fennel oil (0.1%). People called fennel dill, which is why the infusion from its seeds received the name dill water.
Fennel seeds have been used since ancient times to treat intestinal disorders. Dill infusion is equally safe for children and adults. You can make it yourself (there is nothing complicated about it), or you can buy ready-made water at the pharmacy. There is no difference in such means: both waters are equally useful for newborns.
Rules for brewing seeds
In order for the drink to be exclusively beneficial, when brewing seeds you must adhere to certain rules:
- Use purified boiled water.
- Rinse dishes with boiling water.
- Use brightly colored seeds that change the color of the liquid when exposed to high temperatures.
- For 200 ml of water, 1 tbsp is consumed. raw materials. A more saturated concentration is undesirable.
Other recipes with dill for breastfeeding
In addition to dill water, other drinks are prepared from dill seeds and herbs, which also have a beneficial effect on the mother’s lactation and the baby’s digestive system.
Tea
Recipe:
- Grind the seeds in a coffee grinder or blender.
- Place the resulting mixture into a cup.
- Pour boiling water into the container in a ratio of 1 tsp. raw materials per glass of liquid.
- Cover the cup and leave for five minutes.
- Strain the finished tea.
You should drink dill tea before each time you put your baby to the breast.
Cocktail
A cocktail of dill, anise, and fennel seeds will help diversify your diet and improve lactation. To prepare it, you need to mix all the ingredients in equal proportions and grind in a coffee grinder. 1 tbsp. pour the resulting mixture with a glass of just boiled water, cover with a lid, leave for half an hour, strain.
Oil solution
To prepare a medicinal solution, you need to dilute 2 drops of fennel oil in 1 liter of water. The product is very concentrated, so a small amount of extract is enough to achieve the desired result.
This liquid should be consumed systematically for a month. Store in the refrigerator for the same time.
How to prepare dill infusion: effective recipes
If you can’t buy dill water, you can make it yourself. There are many different recipes, let's look at a few of them.
- For this recipe you need to take 1 teaspoon of fennel seeds, grind them with a blender or coffee grinder, place them in a 250 ml glass. Pour a glass of boiled water into the prepared powder. Let it brew for 40-45 minutes, then strain the dill broth. How much medicinal water prepared in this way should I give my baby? It should be added to food or breast milk, no more than one spoon. If you have a newborn baby aged 2-4 weeks, the dosage is 15 drops. Store dill infusion for no more than a day.
- You can make a dill infusion by pouring a spoonful of crushed fennel seeds into a glass of cold water, then placing the container with the ingredients in a water bath. Bring the contents to a boil, simmer for a third of an hour. Let it brew for another 40 minutes, then strain.
- Dill water can be prepared using regular dill seeds. Take 1 tsp. seeds, pour boiling water over them (the amount of water is a standard glass) and leave for 1-2 hours. Strain the infusion using sterile gauze.
- For dill water from fresh dill, use chopped dill (1 tbsp) and 150 ml of water. Pour boiling water over the greens and leave the broth to steep for at least an hour. Strain the finished water in a convenient way.
- To make dill water similar to the one sold at the pharmacy, take fennel oil (0.05 g) and dilute it with a liter of water. This product can be stored for about a month in the refrigerator.
It is worth remembering that to prepare any of the recipes described, you need to take purified water and use only sterile and clean utensils. You only need to give your child a freshly prepared decoction or infusion - you cannot store homemade dill water for more than a day.
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Possible side effects
If you are hypersensitive to dill or fennel, side effects may occur.
Sometimes a baby develops an allergic reaction, manifested by the following symptoms:
- redness of the skin;
- itching;
- hives.
Excessively frequent consumption of the drink can lead to diarrhea and increased gas formation. Possible decrease in blood pressure.
The following negative manifestations may be observed:
- gagging;
- flatulence;
- dizziness;
- prostration;
- swelling of the mucous membranes.
If such symptoms appear, you should stop drinking the drink and seek help from a pediatrician.
Is it possible?
This medicine is recommended to be taken in the following cases:
- flatulence;
- intestinal colic;
- bloating;
- poor appetite;
- difficult digestion;
- high blood pressure;
- angina pectoris;
- cold infections;
- dry cough.
Dill water should not be drunk for a number of conditions. These include:
- presence of sensitivity to dill oil;
- heart defects;
- severe intestinal obstruction.
Important. People with low blood pressure can use the product only after consulting a doctor.
Dill water is recommended for nursing mothers. The product increases the production of mother's milk.
But you can use it only after consulting a pediatrician.
Dill water can provoke allergies in infants who are fed breast milk.
If the child develops hives, the mother should stop drinking the drink.
Contraindications
Despite the fact that the benefits of dill water are obvious, sometimes its use is contraindicated. The product contains anetine, which helps dilate blood vessels, so it may lower blood pressure.
Nursing mothers suffering from hypotension should avoid using this drug..
Individual intolerance to this product is possible, so it is not recommended to drink infusions and decoctions if you have a food allergy.
Expert opinion Anastasia Mikhailovna Moiseeva Practicing general practitioner, 18 years of experience. The product is not recommended for pathologies of the gallbladder and liver. This is due to the fact that dill water promotes intensive bile production.
Contraindications for use
Even such a harmless remedy is not useful for everyone. A nursing mother will have to give up this medication under the following conditions:
Low blood pressure
The plant contains a substance called anetine, which dilates blood vessels. The pressure level decreases even more, loss of strength, dizziness and loss of consciousness are possible. In this case, dill can be replaced with cumin, fennel or anise, which act similarly.
Food allergies
Before drinking drops or infusion, remember whether you have an individual intolerance.
Cholelithiasis
The substances activate the production of bile, which can be dangerous with this diagnosis.
If there are no contraindications, drink a proven folk remedy and be healthy.
