The experience of transformation into motherhood is a privilege reserved exclusively for women. A powerful experience of nurturing available to many women is that of nursing their children and the experience of breast feeding is an important part of their motherhood. Objectives: To assess and compare the efficacy of hot water application and cold cabbage leaves compresses in the treatment of br...

BACKGROUND Breast engorgement is a condition that affects breastfeeding mothers early in the postpartum. The discomfort and tenderness as a result of the engorgement is a major contributing factor to the early cessation of breastfeeding. Many treatments for breast engorgement have been attempted and explored. OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of cabbage leaf treatment on pain and hardnes...

Background: Breast engorgement is one of the common problem among postnatal mother which causes delayed initiation breast feeds and restriction in breastfeeding. The study was done to assess effectiveness Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding mothers. Materials Methods: Quantitative with non-experimental design chosen this study. 30 mothers admitted ward were selected as samples....

A case of attachment and complete engorgement of a Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) nymph on a woman with severe pain shortly before nymphal drop-off is described. The pain continued for about 2 weeks after tick removal. Apparently, this is the first documented case of human adverse reaction developed at the very last stage of engorgement of nymphal R. sanguineus. The infestation most...

With the objective of encouraging the use of rabbits as alternative hosts for the cattle tick, four rabbits were infested on the ears and back. From the second day of infestation the developmental stages were observed. e duration of larval engorgement and changes were estimated between six and eight days in the region of the back and between 've and seven days in the pinna. e nymphal engorgemen...

Caged Aedes aegypti were exposed to a range of concentrations of d-phenothrin, d-allethrin and tetramethrin in a wind tunnel. Mortality, blood engorgement and egg production among these mosquitoes and their progeny were recorded. Tetramethrin was the most effective (LC50 of 0.0017%), followed by d-phenothrin (LC50 0.0031%) and d-allethrin (LC50 0.01%). Blood engorgement was decreased by treatme...