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Van: Gonneke van Veldhuizen-Staas <[log in to unmask]>
Aan: Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Verzonden: woensdag 16 februari 2000 15:03
Onderwerp: Re: Re: saline


> > 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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