Common cold is the commonest respiratory disease in children and adults.It is characterised by running nose,sneezing,coughing,fever,headache and generalised bodyache with feeling of low.It is a common belief among mothers that while I am suffering from common cold and breast feed my child,this disease will go into my child through my milk.
This belief is totally wrong.Whenever mother or any member of family is suffering from common cold,child may get infected through close contact because this disease is viral disease and spreads from person to person through air, not through milk or not through saliva.
So it makes no difference,whether a mother feeds her baby or not.If she has common cold,she may transmit it to the baby by just sneezing or coughing near the baby.
So, breast feeding should be continued while mother has common cold.