Research continues to support breastfeeding as a source of health for the mother as well. Specifically, in the latest issue of the digital magazine "Revista de Neurología", published by the Spanish Society of Neurology, they present an article on the suitability of this choice in the case of mothers with multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis is a pathology of the so-called autoimmune, that is, in which the affected immune system itself (which should serve to keep infections and attacks from outside) at bay, acts on areas of the nervous system, attacking it.
In the study, they found that women with multiple sclerosis show a 60% reduction in postpartum relapses when they exclusively breastfeed for at least two months after giving birth. These relapses are spikes of activation of the immune system that generate an outbreak of the symptoms of the disease.
Apparently, exclusive breastfeeding is also associated with a significant delay in the onset of menstruation and this delay, in turn, is associated with a lower number of subsequent relapses.
These findings have been published in the Archives of Neurology magazine and 32 pregnant multiple sclerosis patients participated in it and it was concluded that breastfeeding acted as an immunomodulatory treatment (that is, that regulates the immune system by temporarily controlling the imbalances generated by the disease ).
A new reason to opt for breastfeeding (as long as the mother can do it without suffering and the baby ingests the amount of food she needs).
