The recommendation for use of herbal teas in nursing women is:
a. choose teas using herbs for essence.
b. choose natural teas.
c. choose synthetic teas.
d. choose teas that have traditional uses dating back thousands of years.
e. choose whatever tea is preferred; all tea is safe.
Question 2
A breastfeeding mother asks you if alcohol can be eliminated from her breast milk by pumping immediately after drinking a few glasses of wine. What would you tell her?
a. Yes; in fact, discarding your breast milk is a good thing to do if you would like to drink while breastfeeding.
b. Yes; pumping will help, but you need to pump for the next 24 hours and discard any milk that you collect.
c. No; your breast milk will still contain alcohol; you will need to wait 1 hour per alcoholic beverage and then pump the milk and discard it to be safe.
d. No; the alcohol will still be in the breast milk and will clear from the milk as soon as it clears from the blood stream: roughly 2 to 3 hours per drink for a 120-pound woman.
e. None of the above will help eliminate alcohol from breast milk.