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- 1 Can a nursing mother eat champignons?
- 2 What are the benefits of champignons during breastfeeding?
- 3 When can I have champignons for breastfeeding?
- 4 What champignons can a nursing mother eat?
- 5 How to cook champignons for a nursing mother
- 6 How to eat champignons correctly during breastfeeding
- 7 Restrictions and contraindications for the use of champignons during breastfeeding
- 8 Conclusion
You can eat champignons while breastfeeding - most doctors adhere to this point of view. But to prevent mushrooms from causing harm, it is necessary to study in detail the rules for their use and safe recipes for nursing mothers.
Can a nursing mother eat champignons?
As a rule, during breastfeeding, doctors recommend avoiding any mushroom dishes. Eating mushrooms always risks poisoning, even if the fruiting bodies are completely fresh, collected in a clean forest and carefully processed.
However, champignons when fed are an exception to the rule.They are considered the safest for humans; the fruiting bodies that are sold in stores are even grown on special farms. Thus, the product does not receive any harmful substances from the soil during its development and, in fact, cannot pose a danger.
There is no need to give up the product during breastfeeding. But it must be used with caution.
Champignon caps are the safest for breastfeeding
What are the benefits of champignons during breastfeeding?
Young mothers value champignons for their nutritional value and pleasant taste. But this is not the only benefit. The product has valuable properties and, when used wisely, is capable of:
- maintain the correct water-mineral balance in the body due to the high fluid content in the pulp;
- improve metabolism and intestinal motility;
- remove waste and toxins from the body;
- boost immunity thanks to a large number of antioxidants in the composition;
- prevent vitamin and mineral deficiency.
Komarovsky’s opinion on taking champignons for breastfeeding
The famous children's doctor Komarovsky believes that in general the product is very useful and should definitely be present in a woman’s diet. But regarding breastfeeding, the doctor is quite categorical; he claims that even safe mushrooms should not be consumed until the end of the feeding period. According to Komarovsky, even store-bought mushroom products can pose a danger to an infant, because it is impossible to 100% guarantee their quality and safe growing conditions.
Although the opinion of the famous doctor deserves attention, nursing mothers themselves often disagree with Komarovsky’s opinion about champignons while breastfeeding and believe that it is possible to take mushrooms.
When can I have champignons for breastfeeding?
Despite their safety, champignons remain prohibited during the first month of breastfeeding. You can add them to the diet for the first time when breastfeeding only after 4 months of the baby’s life.
In this case, it is necessary to take into account the characteristics of the infant’s body and its individual reactions. If a child is generally prone to food allergies, often suffers from colic, or has congenital digestive ailments, the introduction of mushrooms to the menu during breastfeeding should be avoided.
The product cannot be introduced into the menu in the first month after childbirth.
What champignons can a nursing mother eat?
Champignons can not be consumed in all types during breastfeeding. When breastfeeding, young mothers should give preference to boiled, stewed or fried mushrooms; these processing methods are the safest.
It is strictly forbidden to consume salted and pickled mushrooms, as well as canned food, while breastfeeding. Cold mushroom preparations in jars contain too much salt and spices, this will negatively affect the composition of breast milk and lead to colic in the baby. In addition, it is salted and pickled fruit bodies that can cause dangerous poisoning, even death.
As for whether a nursing mother can fried champignons, the answer will be negative. Such mushrooms contain an increased amount of oil and are difficult to digest food during breastfeeding.
Selection rules
Although tasty and fresh fruiting bodies can be found in the forest, women are advised to give preference to store-bought mushrooms during breastfeeding. The fact is that young champignons are very similar to young pale toadstool, and there is always a risk of making a mistake when collecting.
You should buy champignons in the store
When purchasing a product, you need to pay attention to the following points:
- color - fresh champignons should be white or slightly beige, matte and without dark spots on the surface of the cap;
- structure - you need to choose fruiting bodies that have a film under the cap, and the cap itself is firmly connected to the stem;
- smell - a fresh product smells pleasantly of mushrooms, there should not be a damp aroma from it;
- elasticity - fruiting bodies should be dense; you should not buy a soft product.
When breastfeeding, it is better to choose small-sized fruiting bodies; they will be prepared faster and will be better absorbed.
How to cook champignons for a nursing mother
When breastfeeding, absolute preference should be given to stewed, baked and boiled mushrooms. Therefore, light soups and main courses with vegetables and cereals are most often prepared using mushroom pulp:
- During the cooking process, it is recommended to chop the champignons thoroughly; they will be digested better.
- Salt can be added to mushroom dishes only in very small quantities.
- It is better to avoid pepper and other hot seasonings entirely.
Fish fillet baked with mushrooms
Fresh champignons go well with soft fish fillets. The cooking recipe looks like this:
- 1 kg of fillet is lightly coated with vegetable oil and marinated in spices for half an hour; spices should be aromatic, but not spicy;
- 500 g of champignon pulp and 2 leeks, cut as small as possible, mix and simmer in a frying pan for about 5 minutes;
- after that, add olive oil, 500 g of low-fat sour cream and a little flour to a hot frying pan;
- the mixture is simmered until it thickens and turns yellowish, and then pour it over the fish in a baking dish;
- fish fillets are placed in the oven for half an hour at temperatures up to 200 °C
You can serve the dish with dill or basil, which will give the product a spicy taste and aroma.
Fish fillet with mushroom caps - a tasty and nutritious dish
Light mushroom soup
A nursing mother can eat champignons as part of another healthy and tasty dish - soup with champignons, vegetables and herbs. They do it like this:
- 500 g of champignons are finely chopped and poured into 1.5 liters of boiling water;
- add 4 peeled and diced potatoes;
- while the ingredients are boiling, fry some carrots and chopped onions;
- after the onion becomes slightly golden, add it to the pan along with the carrots;
- Salt the soup to taste, add a bay leaf and after a few more minutes remove from the heat.
A little sour cream and herbs are added to the finished dish; you can also add rye crackers to the soup.
Mushroom cream soup
A nursing mother can have champignons with vermicelli and potatoes. Another recipe suggests making a very tender and tasty soup. According to the recipe, you need:
- boil a liter of water or aromatic broth left after cooking the chicken;
- cut 2 potatoes into cubes and boil for 10 minutes;
- add grated carrots, diced onions, 50 g vermicelli and 300 g finely chopped champignons to the pan;
- add salt to the soup and cook for another 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
When the soup is ready, you will need to cool it slightly, and then beat it with a blender until pureed and sprinkle with fresh herbs.
Cream soup is very well absorbed by the stomach
Mushrooms stewed with apple
The mushroom product will be of great benefit during breastfeeding if you stew it with fresh green apples. It is very simple to prepare the dish according to the recipe, for this you need:
- pour 500 g of finely chopped fruit bodies into a saucepan;
- add a little water and simmer for 20 minutes;
- Cut the apples into slices, add to the mushroom pulp, pour in mushroom broth and add salt to taste.
Stew the apples and champignons for another 10 minutes, then remove from the heat and enjoy the vitamin-packed and tasty dish.
Zucchini stewed with mushrooms
A nursing mother can have stewed champignon mushrooms with zucchini. To prepare a healthy dish, you need:
- chop 500 g of peeled zucchini and the same amount of fresh champignons into smaller pieces;
- fry the ingredients for 5 minutes over low heat;
- Separately, fry the finely chopped onion for a couple of minutes, pour 100 ml of sour cream over it and add salt.
The onions and sour cream are stewed for a quarter of an hour, then the champignon slices are beautifully arranged over the sliced zucchini and strung on a wooden skewer, and then poured with hot gravy.
Zucchini and champignons make up for the lack of vitamins
Mushroom cutlets with buckwheat
While breastfeeding, you can prepare nutritious mushroom cutlets. The recipe looks like this:
- Boil 100 g of buckwheat in 200 ml of water;
- 100 g of champignons, grated carrots and finely chopped leeks are stewed in a frying pan in a small amount of water until softened;
- mix buckwheat, vegetables and mushroom pulp, add 1 egg, a little salt and 2 large spoons of flour;
- knead the dough and form it into neat cutlets, after which they are breaded.
The cutlets are quickly fried in a small amount of olive oil, and then simmered in a saucepan with a small amount of water for another 10 minutes.
Mushrooms with vegetables and rice
A nursing mother can have champignon mushrooms with rice, and prepare the dish like this:
- quickly fry grated carrots and chopped onions;
- 300 g of champignons are cut into thin slices and stewed together with vegetables for 8 minutes;
- sprinkle the dish with mild spices, pour 200 g of rice on top and pour water over the ingredients;
- After boiling, simmer the rice, mushroom pieces and vegetables under the lid until the rice softens.
The dish quickly satisfies during breastfeeding, since both champignons and rice satisfy hunger well.
Rice with champignons perfectly satisfies hunger
How to eat champignons correctly during breastfeeding
When using any cooking recipes, you must adhere to the following rules:
- When breastfeeding, champignons can be introduced into the menu no earlier than the child turns 4 months old.
- For the first time, you need to try just 1 small spoon of boiled or stewed mushroom bodies, preferably in the morning. After this, you need to carefully monitor the child’s reaction. If allergies do not manifest themselves, then you can further increase the daily amount of mushroom pulp, gradually bringing it to 70 g per day.
- Even with good tolerance, champignons should be consumed no more than once a week.
Restrictions and contraindications for the use of champignons during breastfeeding
In general, a nursing mother can eat champignons, but with reservations, they have a number of contraindications. They cannot be used:
- for chronic ailments of the stomach, intestines, kidneys and gall bladder in women;
- if a nursing mother is prone to constipation;
- with congenital abnormalities in the functioning of the intestines and stomach in an infant;
- in the presence of heart, kidney and liver diseases in an infant;
- if the infant is prone to diathesis.
You should try mushroom bodies with caution if your infant reacts negatively to dairy products and meat. With a high probability, champignons will not be absorbed by his body when fed.
If the mother and child have a healthy stomach and intestines, store-bought mushrooms will not cause harm
Conclusion
Champignons can be breastfed, but only if they are purchased from a trusted store and prepared according to safe recipes. Salted and canned mushrooms should not be consumed during breastfeeding; moderate dosages must also be observed.
