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QUESTION & ANSWER17/12/2001 Beer is a vegetable product 
Question: I read on your site that brown beer before breast-feeding is still a very successful myth in maternity clinics. Does this mean that it is not true? Or that it is only not true for brown beer but that it applies to any other alcoholic drink? And when can a bottle of beer best be drunk so as to enable the beer to have the maximum favourable effect on the breast milk?Ch. From Brussels Answer: For many years now it has been said about brown beer that it stimulates the production of breast milk during the period mothers are breast-feeding. To the present day even brown beer is being served in some maternity clinics to new mothers that are breast-feeding. Also at home many breast-feeding mothers put some brown beer in stock. However, it has never been proven that brown beer, or beer in general for that matter, stimulates the production of breast milk. Beer has no direct effect on the production of breast milk. Nevertheless, it is not absurd to drink (brown) beer when breast-feeding, on the condition one drinks only a little and one drinks beer with a low alcohol content. Beer is a source of vitamin B and apart from that beer also supplies extra fluid, which is a nice little extra when breast-feeding, when the need for fluid and vitamins is higher than normal anyhow. Even more important however is the fact that beer has a relaxing effect on the nursing mother because of the alcohol content. And it is a known fact that a peaceful mother produces more milk. So we can say that beer has an indirect favourable effect on breast-feeding, because it has an anti-stress effect. Whether or not you choose brown beer or another beer does not matter so much, as long as you select beer with a low alcohol content. It is better to stick to beer, because wines have a higher alcohol content. Dr M.F. | |
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