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Date: | Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:31:43 EDT |
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Hi am a little late in and catching up on postings. May I entertain you with
another cabbage tale....
Years ago when I worked at a hospital that had a small LDRP and when we had
problems we would readmit often to a Med/Surg unit on same floor as our unit.
I got a call from an OB who had a patient with one of the most severe cases of
engorgement I had ever seen to this day. The staff was most eager to do
anything I suggested. I went to the cafeteria and asked if they had cabbage. The
only thing they had was red cabbage used in the salad bar. I was lucky
enough to get a head and when asked what it was for...I explained about the
engorged lady upstairs (well before HIPPA). Being a small hospital the rumor raced
quickly about the crazy nurse in LDRP who was going to dress a lady's breasts
in frozen cabbage. Well I took it upstairs showed the Med Surg staff what to
do and had so many leaves I couldn't keep it their freezer so I took the rest
to our unit freezer (it was a huge cabbage). We first put this lady in a warm
shower for 30 minutes....gave her 600mg of Motrim po and definitely determined
she didn't want to breastfeed ....wrapped her breasts in frozen cabbage and
changed them every 1-2 hours for the first 4 hours and subsequently every 2 -3
hrs had to use an abdominal labor tummy hugger to support her breasts. Her
fever was about 102 and they had her on antibotics in case of mastitis. 24
hours later her breasts were softer...1/2 the size they had been and fever was
down. She stayed in hospital for 4 days....her baby had refused to breastfeed
from get go...Mom refused to pump and dump and then try again. But by day 3 she
was down to a size she could wear a bra comfortably and continued to use the
cabbage for another 3 or 4 days. So I am here to attest that Red cabbage does
work and if its all you got go for it ....when I slipped and fell 4 years ago
and hit both my knees outside the hospital and they thought they were broken
I called my husband to stop at the grocery store for a head of cabbage before
he picked me up in the ER. I love cabbage tales.
Leanne Jewell, RNC, IBCLC, LCCE, FACCE
Miami
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