Mahnaz Shanazi
1, Azizeh Farshbaf Khalili
2, Mahin Kamalifard
1, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi
3, Kazhal Masoudin
1*, Fariba Esmaeli
41 Department of Midwifery, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
2 Department of Midwifery, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
3 Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
4 Information Technology, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: Traumatic nipple is among the most common problems of the breastfeeding
period which leads to early cessation of breastfeeding. The study aimed to
compare the effects of the lanolin, peppermint, and dexpanthenol creams on the
treatment of traumatic nipples
Methods: This double-blind randomized controlled trial was carried
out on 126 breastfeeding mothers. The mothers had visited at the health centers
and children’s hospitals in Sanandaj City. The selected participants were
randomly divided into the following three groups of lanolin, peppermint, and
dexpanthenol cream groups. Nipple pain was measured using the Store scale while
trauma was measured with the Champion scale. Analyses were carried out through
the Kruskal–Wallis test, Chi-square, ANOVA, and repeated
measures ANOVA by using SPSS software ver. 13.
Results: The result showed that the mean score of nipple pain and nipple trauma at
the prior to intervention stage, third, seventh, and fourteenth days of
intervention was not significantly different between three groups. But,
repeated measures ANOVA showed a significant difference in comparison of the four
time periods of intervention in each group.
Conclusion: Results
of this study revealed that the lanolin, peppermint, and dexpanthenol medicines
had similar therapeutic effects on traumatic nipple.