A new benefit that adds to the list of advantages of breastfeeding. And also, in the hands of a group of Spanish researchers, experts from the University Hospital of Valme in Seville.
They won an award with this preliminary study that ensures that lBreastfeeding helps reduce chronic pain after caesarean section by releasing hormones that produce a pleasant effect. Remember that breastfeeding the mother secretes oxytocin (love hormone, responsible for the output of milk) and endorphins (endogenous morphine), welfare hormones that help mitigate pain.
Under the title of "Does breastfeeding protect against chronic heart pain? Preliminary prospective study", it has deepened in the analysis of a disease whose incidence may affect 18% of mothers. All surgical procedures (caesarean section is) have the potential to develop persistent postoperative pain.
The anesthesiologists of this Sevillian center found in a first study the existence of certain factors that influence the conversion of acute pain into chronic after a C-section, such as labor and delivery and the type of surgical incision.
However, the current study presented at this congress brings as a novelty that Breastfeeding beyond two months can protect against the presence of chronic pain after a C-section. To do this, it tracks a total of 139 mothers at 24 and 72 hours after having a C-section and at the following 4 months.
The results obtained reflect that 14.8% presented chronic pain; 82.8% gave breastfeeding and 70.4% of them maintained it for more than two months and 39.1% performed pure breastfeeding.
As they explain, breastfeeding produces a pleasant effect on the mother, which releases a series of hormones that protect against pain in the area of the caesarean section.
The study is in the preliminary phase and will not be conclusive until it is finished by the middle of next year, however the researchers are almost certain that everything that has been confirmed will be confirmed.
The doctors of the University Hospital of Valme of Seville also won two other awards among 145 papers presented: the best control of postoperative acute pain in laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the outpatient regime and the optimization in pain management of gynecological patients after surgery.
