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Joy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:19:01 +0800
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>I have just started a new job and the nurses at my new hospital routinely tell
>the moms to use tea bags for sore nipples.  I have not thought about tea bags
>for years, in fact can't remember ever hearing any really positive things about
>them.  Are there any articles out there to support tea bags?  Or to say that
>they do any harm?  Or what about a connection between tea bags and yeast
>infections, which I think I have heard somewhere?  Thanks for any help.

Ann,

The only reference that I have on tea bags is a letter from Michele Schrob
in JHL Dec 1992 (vol 8, no. 4) page 195 requesting information about them.
In the editor's comment following the letter a paper is quoted - Riordan J
JHL 1:36-41, 1985 which says that the effects were not significantly
different from the use of lanolin (I presume this was normal pharmaceutical
grade, not the purified version). Also another 1958 article is mentioned
that showed that applying water resulted in less complications than other
fluids or emollients!

Hospitals in Western Australia (as far as I know, as I don't work in one)
recommend only expressed breastmilk on sore nipples. However, from speaking
to the mums, there seems to still be the attitude amongst many staff that
sore nipples are quite normal, and that mum just needs to grin and bear it
and it will eventually get better.:-( I think this is one of the reasons we
have such high drop-off rates after hospital discharge, even though we have
good initiation rates. NMAA Counsellors get lots on calls requiring
explanation of positioning and attachment - which is so difficult over the
phone. But I am sure there are many others who don't even call and just
wean.

Joy Anderson IBCLC, NMAA Breastfeeding Counsellor,
Perth, Western Australia
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