Is African Mango Extract Safe For Breastfeeding?

A lot of breastfeeding mothers are anxious to lose the weight they gained during pregnancy, and because diet and exercise is sometimes not fast enough, they may consider using supplements. Of course a natural question arises: will the baby be in danger?

The African mango extract is quite popular as a weight losing pill nowadays. The hype began after Dr. Oz claimed it to be a miraculous solution for folks that want to lose weight fast and some published studies support his claims. While the African mango extract does not seem to possess any serious side-effects, this is a fact deducted by the low percent of adults that report them. For children, and especially babies that are still at breastfeeding age, it may very well be problematic. While there is no evidence to suggest that African mango extract is dangerous for baby’s that are breastfed, there is also no evidence that suggests it is safe. To determine this, the growing child should be under observance for many years after it was fed by a mother which used African Mango extract, so data is difficult to gather. Because it is very hard to conduct studies on baby’s, probably no information regarding possible side-effects and their probability will appear any time soon. Of course this is the case with most supplements out there.

Using common sense we can safely assume that no serious side-effects will plague the mother or the baby, the extract being from a plant without any chemical additions. The far greater danger is that all supplements contain more than just African mango extract, and while the mix of ingredients may be safe for adults, it may very well affect the baby. Again no proof exists to say otherwise. Furthermore when the baby is young, he or she is much more sensitive to compounds of any kind, so the possible side-effects are unknown. Based on all this, African Mango extract should be considered to be possibly unsafe.

The real danger comes from the lack of regulation that affects these African mango extract based supplements. Because they are not considered food or drugs, no careful checking for scams is conducted, so what you read on the bottle may very well not be true. The long list of substances may say that a pill contains 70mg of extract, but in reality contain only half or none at all. The replacing fillers may be dangerous even for adults. You have no idea what you may be getting and while this presents a high risk for you, the baby may react even worse to unforeseen dangerous fillers. Taking into account this fact, you may want to stick to the good old ways of losing weight, like good diet and daily exercise.

Assuming that you find a brand of African Mango extract you can actually trust, it is still highly recommended to check with your doctor before starting to take it. The dose may be vary depending on how old your baby is or how often you breastfeed him each day.