Can you get a hair relaxer while pregnant?

Answer 1

You CAN, but please do not do that to your baby - it's incredibly selfish. You are putting CHEMICALS onto your hair & scalp. Everything you do to your body, you do to your baby. What's more important, how you look, or the health & safety of your child?

Answer 2

There are a lot of chemicals involved when you get a perm, but none of them is actually really harmful to human beings. The worst they do is cause Allergies. They haven't been found to cause cancer or neurological problems.

Also, keep in mind these chemicals first have to be absorbed through the skin, second they get diluted in the mother's blood stream and third they have to be orally bioavailable to actually enter the baby's blood stream. Anything that's not orally bioavailable gets excreted.

Look here for more information:

http://mamisays.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/can-i-get-a-perm-while-breastfeeding-nursing/

Answer 3

Don't know what you mean by a relaxer, but traces of whatever the mother gets into her will make it into the breast milk and the baby.

If it's a recreational drug, just stay away for the time you're breast feeding. It's really not fair to put the baby at risk solely for your own comfort.

If it's a proper medicine, prescribed by a doctor, then check with the doc or the pharmacy about the guidelines for breast feeding related to that drug.

Answer 4

it is perfectly fine to get a pem while breastfeeding... there is no evidence that it has any effects on your baby so your baby will be perfectly safe, hope this helps happy perming! :)

Answer 5

No abosolutly not. Make sure as you have a enfant you put on toxic chemicals to yourself. what ever goes on you or is put on you, effect the baby.