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Breastfeeding may not trigger postpartum IBD flare
Source: American Journal of Gastroenterology 2005; 100: 102-5
Assessing the association between breastfeeding and postpartum
disease activity among women with inflammatory bowel disease.
Breastfeeding is unlikely to be responsible for the flare in disease
activity noted in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in the
postpartum period, research suggests.
As breastfeeding has been linked with an increased risk of postpartum
disease in other autoimmune disorders, Sunanda Kane and Nicole
Lemieux (University of Chicago, Illinois, USA) examined the
association between breastfeeding behavior and postpartum IBD
activity among 122 patients.
Analysis of their medical records revealed that 54 of these women had
breastfed their child. Forty-three percent of the breastfeeders
experienced a postpartum flare of their disease, compared with just
19 percent of those who did not breastfeed (odds ratio = 2.2).
Despite this apparent association, however, the majority (74 percent)
of women who breastfed had stopped taking their medications prior to
breastfeeding, and once adjusted for medication cessation, the OR for
disease activity (OR = 1.3) with breastfeeding became nonsignificant.
"Any relationship between breastfeeding and disease activity may be
more a consequence of discontinuation of IBD therapies," Kane and
Lemieux therefore postulate.
http://www.obgynworld.com/international/news/2005/Week_01/Day_4/Breastfeeding_may_no.asp
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