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Treatment for breast engorgement in breastfeeding women
Breast engorgement is when the breasts overfill with milk and the breasts become swollen, hard and painful. Large numbers of women experience this, usually in the first few days after giving birth, although it can also occur later on. During a time when mothers are coping with the demands of a new baby it may be particularly distressing. Breast engorgement may mean that women fail to successfully start breastfeeding, cause them to give up breastfeeding, or serious illness can result, including breast infection. The aim of the review was to examine treatments used to relieve the symptoms of breast engorgement. We included eight randomised controlled trials involving 744 women. Studies examined a range of different treatments for breast engorgement including acupuncture, cabbage leaves applied to the breasts, cold gel packs, pharmacological treatments and ultrasound. For some interventions (ultrasound, cabbage leaves, and oxytocin) there was no strong evidence that interventions led to a more rapid resolution of symptoms, as in these studies women tended to have improvements in pain and other symptoms over time whether or not they received active treatment. There was evidence from one study that, compared with women receiving routine care, women receiving acupuncture had greater improvements in symptoms in the days following treatment, although there was no evidence of a difference between groups by six days, and the study was not large enough to be able to detect meaningful differences for other outcomes such as breast abscess. A study looking at cold packs suggested that the application of cold to the breasts does not cause any harm and may be associated with improvements in symptoms, although differences between the control and cold pack groups before treatment started meant that results were difficult to interpret. The overall conclusions of the review are that although some interventions may be promising, there is not sufficient evidence from well designed trials on any intervention to justify widespread uptake of that intervention. More research is needed on treatments for this painful and distressing condition.
น้ำพุภาษาสรุปรักษา engorgement เต้านมในผู้หญิงที่เลี้ยงลูกด้วยนมBreast engorgement is when the breasts overfill with milk and the breasts become swollen, hard and painful. Large numbers of women experience this, usually in the first few days after giving birth, although it can also occur later on. During a time when mothers are coping with the demands of a new baby it may be particularly distressing. Breast engorgement may mean that women fail to successfully start breastfeeding, cause them to give up breastfeeding, or serious illness can result, including breast infection. The aim of the review was to examine treatments used to relieve the symptoms of breast engorgement. We included eight randomised controlled trials involving 744 women. Studies examined a range of different treatments for breast engorgement including acupuncture, cabbage leaves applied to the breasts, cold gel packs, pharmacological treatments and ultrasound. For some interventions (ultrasound, cabbage leaves, and oxytocin) there was no strong evidence that interventions led to a more rapid resolution of symptoms, as in these studies women tended to have improvements in pain and other symptoms over time whether or not they received active treatment. There was evidence from one study that, compared with women receiving routine care, women receiving acupuncture had greater improvements in symptoms in the days following treatment, although there was no evidence of a difference between groups by six days, and the study was not large enough to be able to detect meaningful differences for other outcomes such as breast abscess. A study looking at cold packs suggested that the application of cold to the breasts does not cause any harm and may be associated with improvements in symptoms, although differences between the control and cold pack groups before treatment started meant that results were difficult to interpret. The overall conclusions of the review are that although some interventions may be promising, there is not sufficient evidence from well designed trials on any intervention to justify widespread uptake of that intervention. More research is needed on treatments for this painful and distressing condition.
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