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> Dear Cindy, It's real easy and cheap, seems pref to the old tea bag
> routine, less messy. 1 cup warm water and 1/2 level tsp salt = normal
> saline according to my ref. Some people say it is 1/4 tsp. Whatever -
too
> much salt stings! Make a compress and soak with solution, put on nipple
> for at least 10 min at least 4 x day. Or just put solution in a tea cup
and
> lean over a little and sink nipple into solution. Moms usually report
> remarkable results in 24 hours.
The use of saline solutions or soda solutions (soda the salt like cristals,
not soda water to drink!) are used in traditional medicine and as a
grandmothers' all purpose cure for cat scratches, perineum ruptures,
infected wounds, in-grown toe-nails, splinters, etc. It is a mild, but still
strong working wound cleaner or antisceptic and is used to *pull the
infection out* and to speed up closed infections to open without cutting. I
do not know of any research but I do know it works. I use it a lot in my
family and know cert. midwifes advice their patients with painfull ready to
be infected perineal stitches to have a sit-bath in a small tub with saline
solution. They take I think 5 to 10% solution, I use the 1/2 teaspoon in
1cup of nice warm water.
Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC
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