Oxytocin nasal spray does not boost milk output
Sat May 6, 2006 

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-05-06T011647Z_01_KRA604578_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-OXYTOCIN-DC.XML


NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A nasal spray containing the hormone oxytocin, which is essential to the production and flow of breast milk, does not improve milk output in mothers expressing milk for preterm infants, a study shows.

"Mothers may experience difficulties in expressing breast milk for infants too immature or sick to breast feed," Dr. M.S. Fewtrell, of the Institute of Child Health in London, and colleagues explain. "Oxytocin has been used to assist breast feeding and milk expression, but few data are available to support this intervention in the neonatal unit setting."
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The study abstract:

Randomised, double blind trial of oxytocin nasal spray in mothers expressing breast milk for preterm infants 

Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2006;91:F169-F174; doi:10.1136/adc.2005.081265

http://fn.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/91/3/F169

Janice Reynolds

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