Effect of Peppermint Water on Prevention of Nipple Crack in Lactating Primiparous Women: a Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 196
- 主要终点
- The primary outcome that the study was designed to evaluate: the presence and severity of sore nipples, nipple pain.
研究概览
简要总结
To evaluate the effectiveness of a topical preparation of peppermint water in comparison with that of expressed breast milk for the prevention of nipple cracks in primiparous breastfeeding women.
详细描述
One hundred and ninety-six primipara participants, who are breastfeeding after delivery at 38 or more week gestation, were assigned randomly to 2 groups, with one of 2 regimens (peppermint water, an old household remedy, and no treatment only using breast milk) to right and left sides. Each group was followed for a maximum of 3 visits within 14 days and until the 6 weeks postpartum by telephone call. The aerial parts of Mentha piperita were purchased from Hakim Momen Tabrizi Company, and the identity was confirmed by morphological characterization in comparison with the herbarium specimen retained in the School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Also, a voucher specimen has been generated in that herbarium.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 40 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •New mothers with healthy term infants (38 weeks gestation or more) are eligible for recruitment into the study. The sample of breastfeeding mothers were collected in two cohorts according delivery type. Each group consisted of 98 primipara mothers.
排除标准
- •Mothers who didn't plan to use peppermint water
- •Discharged before an interview or had preterm delivery
- •Postpartum fever
- •Breast infection
- •Nipple abnormalities
- •Age less than 18 years
- •Taking medications at night
- •Mothers who didn't have telephone line, and who were illiterate.
- •Infants who used bottle-feeding or pacifier, or who had mouth infection, or an abnormal short frenulum.
结局指标
主要结局
The primary outcome that the study was designed to evaluate: the presence and severity of sore nipples, nipple pain.
The time at which the outcome is measured: nipple and areola cracks, and pain at days 4, 8, 14.
次要结局
- The frequency and duration of breastfeeding at days 4, 8, 14 and the number of mothers who continued feeding at week 6 was used as the secondary outcome