All Reduce Lactation | PGIMER MCQs for MD MS Preparations

All reduce lactation except :

a. Maternal anxiety 
b. Retracted nipple 
c. Dehydration 
d. Diabetes 
e. Antibiotics

Ans (C) Dehydration ; (D) Diabetes ; (E) Antibiotics; 

Causes of reduced lactation are

* Infrequent suckling

Depression or anxiety

* Ill development of breast

* Painful breastlesion

* Endogenous supression ofprolactin, e.g. retained placenta.

* Prolactin inhibitors - ergots, diuretics, pyridoxine Uncontrolled diabetes

* Post partum hemorrhage

* Hypothyroidism

In retracted nipple, baby fails to suk and thus lactation is reduced.