Acute alcohol consumption disrupts the hormonal milieu of lactating women

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1979-1985

  Mennella, Julie A ^a,b   Pepino, M Yanina ^a   Teff, Karen L ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Natl Inst Diabet Digest K ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUNKENNESS; DYSPHORIA; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; MILK; MILK EJECTION; MILK PRODUCTION; MILK YIELD; NORMAL HUMAN; ORANGE JUICE; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEDATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AREA UNDER CURVE; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT; LACTATION; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN;

EID: 17844393872     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-1593     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Mennella JA 2002 Alcohol and lactation: the folklore versus the science. In: Auerbach KG, ed. Current issues in clinical lactation. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 3-10
2. Krebs R 1953 Making friends is our business - 100 years of Anheuser-Busch. St. Louis, MO: Anheuser-Busch Inc.
3. Pryor K 1963 Nursing your baby. New York: Harper and Row Publishers; 190
4. Blume S, Auerbach KG, Schreiber JR, Falkner F 1987 Beer and the breastfeeding mom. JAMA 258:2126
5. Grossman ER 1988 Beer, breast-feeding and the wisdom of old wives. JAMA 259:1016
6. De Rosa G, Corsello SM, Ruffilli MP, Della Casa S, Pasargiklian E 1981 Prolactin secretion after beer. Lancet 2:934
7. Subramanian MG 1996 Effects of ethanol on lactation. In: Abel EL, ed. Fetal alcohol syndrome: from mechanism to prevention. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc.; 237-247
8. Heil SH, Subramanian MG 2000 Chronic alcohol exposure: extended observations. Alcohol 21:127-132
9. Mendelson JH, Mello NK, Ellingboe J 1981 Acute alcohol intake and pituitary gonadal hormones in normal human females. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 218:23-26
10. Soyka M, Gorig E, Naber D 1991 Serum prolactin increase induced by ethanol - a dose-dependent effect not related to stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 16:441-446
11. Howie PW, McNeilly AS, McArdle T, Smart L, Houston M 1980 The relationship between suckling-induced prolactin response and lactogenesis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 50:670-673
12. Cox DB, Owens RA, Hartmann PE 1996 Blood and milk prolactin and the rate of milk synthesis in women. Exp Physiol 81:1007-1020
13. Lauersen NH, Merkatz IR, Tejani N, Wilson KH, Roberson A, Mann LI, Fuchs F 1977 Inhibition of premature labor: a multicenter comparison of ritodrine and ethanol. Am J Obstet Gynecol 127:837-845
14. Fuchs AR, Husslein P, Sumulong L, Micha JP, Dawood MY, Fuchs F 1982 Plasma levels of oxytocin and 13,14-dihydro-15-keto prostaglandin F2 α in preterm labor and the effect of ethanol and ritrodine. Am J Obstet Gynecol 144:753-759
15. Cobo E 1973 Effect of different doses of ethanol on the milk-ejecting reflex in lactating women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 115:817-821
16. Mennella JA 1998 Short-term effects of maternal alcohol consumption on lactational performance. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 22:1389-1392
17. Mennella JA, Beauchamp GK 1991 The transfer of alcohol to human milk: effects on flavor and the infant's behavior. N Engl J Med 325:981-985
18. Mennella JA, Beauchamp GK 1993 Effects of beer on breast-fed infants. JAMA 269:1637-1638
19. Bowen-Jones A, Thompson C, Drewett RF 1982 Milk flow and sucking rates during breast-feeding. Dev Med Child Neurol 24:626-633
20. Mennella JA 1997 Infants' suckling responses to the flavor of alcohol in mothers' milk. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 21:581-585
21. Díaz S, Serón-Ferré M, Cárdenas H, Schiappacasse V, Brandeis A, Croxatto HB 1989 Circadian variation of basal prolactin, prolactin response to suckling, and length of amenorrhea in nursing women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 68:946-955
22. Little RE, Worthington-Roberts B, Mann SL, Uhl CN 1984 Test-retest reliability of diet and drinking estimates for pregnancy and post partum. Am J Epidemiol 120:794-797
23. Teff KL, Mattes R, Engelman K 1991 Cephalic phase insulin release in normal weight males: verification and reliability. Am J Physiol 261:E430-E436
24. Widstrom AM, Winberg J, Werner S, Hamberger B, Eneroth P, Uvnas-Moberg K 1984 Suckling in lactating women stimulates the secretion of insulin and prolactin without concomitant effects on gastrin, growth hormone, calcitonin, vasopressin or catecholamines. Early Hum Dev 10:115-122
25. Vuorenkoski V, Wasz-Hockert O, Koivisto E, Lind J 1969 The effect of cry stimulus on the temperature of the lactating breast of primipara. A thermographic study. Experientia 25:1286-1287
26. Grayson RH, Halperin JM, Sharma V, Schwartz ST, Koda VH, Newcorn JH 1997 Changes in plasma prolactin and catecholamine metabolite levels following acute needle stick in children. Psychiatry Res 69:27-32
27. Holdstock L, deWit H 1988 Individual differences in the biphasic effects of ethanol. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 22:1903-1911
28. O'Connor S, Morzorati S, Christian J, Li TK 1998 Clamping breath alcohol concentration reduces experimental variance: application to the study of acute tolerance to alcohol and alcohol elimination rate. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 22:202-210
29. Mumenthaler MS, Taylor JL, Yesavage JA 2000 Ethanol pharmacokinetics in white women: nonlinear model fitting versus zero-order elimination analyses. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 24:1353-1362
30. Inns P, Morrison PJ, Pajoumond K 1979 Evaluation of fuel cell alcometer for forensic and pharmacokinetic purposes. Br J Clin Pharmacol 7:439P-440P (Proceedings)
31. Mennella JA, Beauchamp GK 1993 Beer, breast feeding and folklore. Dev Psychobiol 26:459-466
32. Fischman MW, Schuster CR 1980 Cocaine effects in sleep-deprived humans. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 72:1-8
33. Gabriel K, Hoffman C, Glavas M, Weinberg J 1998 The hormonal effects of alcohol use on the mother and fetus. Alcohol Health Res World 22:170-177
34. Gianoulakis C 1998 Alcohol-seeking behavior: the roles of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis and the endogenous opioid system. Alcohol Health Res World 22:202-210
35. Chatterton Jr RT, Hill PD, Aldag JC, Hodges KR, Belknap SM, Zinaman MJ 2000 Relation of plasma oxytocin and prolactin concentrations to milk production in mothers of preterm infants: influence of stress. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 85:3661-3668
36. Gimpl G, Fahrenholz F 2001 The oxytocin receptor system: structure, function and regulation. Physiol Rev 81:629-683
37. Freeman ME, Kanyicska B, Lerant A, Nagy G 2000 Prolactin: structure, function, and regulation of secretion. Physiol Rev 80:1523-1631
38. De A, Boyadjieva N, Oomizu S, Sarkar DK 2002 Ethanol induces hyperprolactinemia by increasing prolactin release and lactotrope growth in female rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:1420-1429
39. Pepino MY, Mennella JA 2004 Advice given to women living in Argentina about breastfeeding, alcohol consumption and feeding practices. Rev Panam Salud Publica 16:408-414
40. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs 2001 Transfer of drugs and other chemicals into human milk. Pediatrics 108:776-789
41. Mennella JA 2004 Alcohol use during lactation: effects on the mother and breastfeeding infant. In: Watson R, ed. Nutrition and alcohol. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 377-391
42. Zumoff B 1993 Biological and endocrinological insights into the possible breast cancer risk from menopausal estrogen replacement therapy. Steroids 58:196-204
43. Murrell TG 1995 The potential for oxytocin (OT) to prevent breast cancer: a hypothesis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 35:225-229