Thursday, 11 April 2013

Nice cup of tea ?
I couldn't get through my day without a cup of tea.After a sleepless night it wakes me up.When I'm flagging after the afternoon school run it gives me the oomph to get cooking the kid's dinner.However is the cup of tea as innocent as we may think.If you are breastfeeding

it might be the time to cut back.
We don't have a UK guideline for a safe amount of caffeine for breastfeeding mums. In the US, no more than 300mg of caffeine a day is recommended. That's about the equivalent of two cups of filter coffee, or four mugs of tea, a day.

More than this amount of caffeine is unlikely to harm your baby. However, if your baby seems very unsettled or restless, or finds it difficult to sleep

, try cutting back on caffeine. Just have just the occasional cup of tea or coffee,change to decaff or cut it out of your diet completely, and see if it makes a difference.
Hot drink scalds are one of the most common childhood injuries and the leading cause of children being admitted to burns services. Every day in the UK, 45 children are taken to A&E departments with scalds from hot drinks - that's around 16,500 a year.1 In 2010-11 almost 1,200 children under the age of 15 were admitted to hospital in England and Wales with hot drink scalds.2
Almost nine in ten serious scalds from hot drinks involve under fives. In fact, hot drinks are the number one cause of scald injuries among young children.1 Hot drink scalds peak at the age of one or two, with most of these accidents happening when babies and toddlers pull a mug of tea or coffee onto themselves.
 Right that's me done I'm off for a cuppa!

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