Conocimiento sobre lactancia materna y técnicas de amamantamiento como factores realcionados en la aparición de la mastitis en madres lactantes

Abstract

Breastfeeding offers many benefits for both mothers and children, but there are cases in which this noble practice has been abandoned, attributed to the causes of being primiparous mothers, having to work outside the home, perceiving that the child is unsatisfied or problems related to the breast and the nipple due to an inefficient technique to breastfeed the child and its relationship with the appearance of mastitis, an inflammation of the breast, which usually occurs in the postpartum period. This thematic review aims to identify knowledge about breastfeeding and breastfeeding techniques as related factors in the appearance of mastitis in nursing mothers from the service. The type of study that was carried out was a bibliographic review where various documentary sources were used. A bibliographic search was performed in May 2020 in sceilo, Elsevier, Dialnet, Scopus, using the descriptors: Mastitis, Factors related to breastfeeding, Breastfeeding abandonment. The documents obtained as a result of the search range between 30 and 50 articles after the combination of the different keywords. An internet search was also carried out in the “GOOGLE ACADEMICO” search engine with the same terms. Those documents that reported on the most important aspects that help us identify the association between knowledge about breastfeeding and breastfeeding techniques were selected as related factors in the appearance of mastitis.