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Re: breastfeeding/cabbageFrom: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)Sat Jan 20 11:11:07 2001
At Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Steve & Eryl Raymond wrote: > >It has always seemed to me that the likely explanation of why cabbage leaves >work to relieve engorgement is that in some way (by cooling, or perhaps by >insulating and thus warming) they are changing the capillary flow. It is >interesting that La Leche League advocate standing in a warm shower with the >water playing on the breasts until they start to let down milk and relieve the >pressure. It is most definitely an area which could do with further study. >Other possible leaves which might do as the crossover include banana leaves, >and I'm sure other large leaves can be thought of. It doesn't have to be >double blind. A study could be designed to use two different types of leaves >and have the study users say which does better. After all it would really be >a modified pain study and placebo effect in these types of study is impossible >to control for. > Ginny's patients may have easy access to banana leaves, but here in Illinois in January they're kinda hard to come by.
-- Anna Meenan, MD >"
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