Breast and Nipple Pain

by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett PhD Ibclc

Overview

Nipple pain is one of the most common reasons for premature cessation of breastfeeding. Breast and Nipple Pain is a collection of articles with the latest insights on how to help mothers who experience it. Topics include:

• Addressing latch issues immediately to prevent nipple pain and early weaning
• Differentiating between Raynaud's Phenomenon of the Nipple and Candidiasis as a cause of pain
• Evidence-based treatment strategies for painful nipples
• Lanolin use and possible increased risk of nipple or breast infection
• Topical treatments used by mothers for nipple pain and trauma
• Frenotomy to decrease breastfeeding difficulties due to ankyloglossia
• Timing of frenotomy for improved breastfeeding and infant outcomes
• Kinesio Elastic Therapeutic Taping® in treating breast engorgement
• Mothers' subjective experience of nipple pain and breastfeeding difficulties

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939807328
Publisher:	Praeclarus Press
Publication date:	07/08/2015
Series:	Clinical Lactation Monograph , #3
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist, IBCLC, and Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She is Editor-in-Chief at Praeclarus Press and Clinical Professor of Nursing at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Lactation.