People seek NHS advice on drinking and breastfeeding at Christmas

NHS website accusation connected drinking portion breastfeeding saw the highest summation successful visits astatine Christmas past year, caller figures show.

Among the astir visited pages connected Christmas and Boxing Day successful 2023 were proposal coughs, colds and thorax infections.

But immoderate radical besides wanted to cognize astir drinking and breastfeeding, intoxicant poisoning and rabies, NHS England said.

Page views connected burns and scalds and how to dainty them besides increased.

In presumption of wellness conditions, the astir commonly viewed leafage aft Covid-19 was for the wintertime vomiting norovirus with 19,170 visits implicit the 48-hour festive play successful 2023.

Some 17,398 different visits - astir 1 each 10 seconds - were for thorax infections, portion pages connected diarrhoea and vomiting had 11,789 views.

Overall views connected pages of the NHS website relating to breastfeeding and drinking intoxicant were lower, but accrued by 146% - from 1,028 to 2,526 - compared to the week earlier Christmas.

Alcohol tin walk into your breastmilk and past into your babe erstwhile you provender them, the NHS advises.

An occasional portion is improbable to harm your baby, particularly if you hold astatine slightest 2 hours aft having a portion earlier feeding, it adds, but warns: "Regularly drinking supra the recommended limits tin beryllium harmful for you and your baby."

There was besides a 60% emergence successful radical seeking accusation connected alcohol poisoning during the festive play compared to a mean 48 hours, with hits up from 1,268 to 2,008.

And visits to pages astir animal and quality bites accrued by a 3rd to 1,494 from 1,128.

Hits connected NHS pages astir rabies accrued by 123% to 1,564 implicit Christmas compared to 700 a week earlier.

Page views connected burns and scalds and however to dainty them accrued by 50% compared to the week earlier Christmas to 2,748 from 1,782.

Prof Sir Stephen Powis, NHS England's aesculapian director, said accidents and injuries tin hap and that the NHS website and the NHS App are disposable astir the timepiece to supply assistance and information.

"So if you bash pain yourself putting the roast potatoes successful the oven, oregon you prime up a wintertime microorganism and privation immoderate enactment to negociate the symptoms, the NHS website is the champion spot to find utile proposal connected what to do."

He said NHS unit would beryllium moving hard passim the festive play to supply attraction for those astir successful need.

Anyone successful request of exigency assistance should interaction 999, oregon 111 for little urgent wellness needs.