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I came across this article and wondered if it could be useful to use
oxytocin spray for women who do not experience lactogenesis II as a result
of nerve damage following breast reduction. Has anyone tried it? Would
using domperidone also help? How early or late could these things be
impelemnted to be effective?
Jenny McAllister. Hospital IBCLC.
Looking foreward to ILCA
KC Cowley
Psychogenic and pharmacologic induction of the let-down reflex can
facilitate breastfeeding by tetraplegic women: a report of 3 cases.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, June 1, 2005; 86(6): 1261-4.
Abstract Cowley KC. Psychogenic and pharmacologic induction of the let-
down reflex can facilitate breastfeeding by tetraplegic women: a report of
3 cases. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005;86:1261-4. Although an increasing
number of women are becoming pregnant and rearing children after spinal
cord injury (SCI), scant literature exists on breastfeeding after injury.
In particular, it is unclear whether women with SCI above T7 can sustain
breastfeeding in a manner similar to neurologically intact nursing
mothers. A functional let-down reflex is required to provide adequate milk
to a nursing infant. Infant suckling activates tactile receptors in the
breast, and this signal is carried via afferent nerves in the T4-6 dorsal
roots to the spinal cord and then to neurons in the hypothalamus, which
release oxytocin into the bloodstream. Oxytocin triggers milk ejection
from the breast. Suckling-induced afferent stimuli are absent in women
with SCI above T4 and are reduced if the injury is between T4 and T6. This
report describes the breastfeeding practices of 3 tetraplegic women and
shows that breastfeeding can be maintained for extended periods (12-54wk)
after delivery. Two women required active mental imaging and relaxation
techniques, or oxytocin nasal spray, to facilitate the let-down reflex.
These findings suggest that although an absence of suckling-induced
afferent stimuli may impair the let-down reflex, long-term breastfeeding
can be maintained.
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