Prolactin Secretion After Beer

Rosa, Gabriela; Corsello, Salvatore Maria; Ruffilli, M. P.; Casa, Silvia Della; Pasargiklian, E

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(81)91422-7

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“…More specifically, previous data suggested that beer increased prolactin levels48, 49. However, we did not observe associations for beer or other types of alcoholic beverages.…”

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confidence: 92%

Energy balance, early life body size, and plasma prolactin levels in postmenopausal women

Hankinson

Clevenger

et al. 2008

Cancer Causes Control

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Objective-We examined the relationships of prolactin with birth weight; childhood, adolescent and adult body size measures; adult physical activity and inactivity; and alcohol consumption among 1,423 postmenopausal women from the Nurses' Health Study. Methods-Information on exposures was collected on biennial questionnaires beginning in 1976.Blood was collected from 32,826 participants in 1990; prolactin was measured in a subset of women who were controls for a nested breast cancer case-control study. Generalized linear models were adjusted for assay batch, medication use at blood draw, and other potential predictors of prolactin.Results-No associations were observed for adult factors (p-trend≥0.17), body mass index at age 18, birth weight, or height (p-trend≥0.27). There was an inverse association between body size at ages 5 (p-trend=0.03) and 10 (p-trend=0.05) and prolactin, with levels 9% lower among women with the heaviest versus leanest average childhood body size. This association was more pronounced among women with a birth weight <7 pounds (p-trend=0.004; p-interaction between birth weight and childhood body size=0.01).Conclusions-Our results suggest that few adult lifestyle risk factors are associated with prolactin levels in postmenopausal women; however, childhood body size may be a predictor of levels later in life.

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“…More specifically, previous data suggested that beer increased prolactin levels48, 49. However, we did not observe associations for beer or other types of alcoholic beverages.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 92%

Energy balance, early life body size, and plasma prolactin levels in postmenopausal women

Hankinson

Clevenger

et al. 2008

Cancer Causes Control

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“…The consumption of beer, unlike other alcoholic beverages, increases serum prolactin, a hormone necessary for milk production (Carlson, Wasser, & Reidelberger, 1985;De Rosa, Corsello, Ruffilli, Della Casa, & Pasargiklian, 1981;Grossman, 1987). The subjects in these studies were normal men and nonlactating women, however.…”

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Beer, breast feeding, and folklore

Mennella

Beauchamp

1993

Developmental Psychobiology

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Beer consumption by nursing women altered the sensory qualities of their milk and the behavior of their infants during breast-feeding in the short term. The infants consumed significantly less milk during the 4-hr testing sessions in which their mothers drank alcoholic beer compared to when the mothers drank nonalcoholic beer; this decrease in milk intake was not due to a decrease in the number of times the babies fed. Although the infants consumed less of the alcohol-flavored milk, the mothers believed their infants had ingested enough milk, reported that they experienced a letdown during nursing, and felt they had milk remaining in their breasts at the end of the majority of feedings. Moreover, the mothers terminated the feeds the same percentage of time on both testing days. The mechanism by which the consumption of alcoholic beer by lactating women decreases milk intake by their nurslings remains to be determined.

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“…[29][30][31] Beer in quantities ranging from 800 mL to 1 L has been shown to increase serum prolactin secretion in normal men and non-lactating women as beer is reported to have different effects as a galactagogue, unlike ethanol alone (evidence level Carlson et al .-NHMRC IV; DeRosa et al .-NHMRC IV). 32,33 However, it has been demonstrated in both human and animal studies that the effect of alcohol regardless of the source (e.g. beer) is at the posterior pituitary, through the effect of oxytocin on milk ejection from the mammary gland in response to suckling, rather than prolactin levels, which are responsible for milk biosynthesis (evidence level Heil and Subramanian-NHMRC V, animal study; Mennella et al .-NHMRC II).…”

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Alcohol and lactation: A systematic review

Giglia

Binns

2006

Nutrition & Dietetics

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The aim of the present paper is to critically review the current literature on the effect of alcohol intake during lactation on the hormonal control of lactogenesis; breast milk and infant blood alcohol concentration; and on the breastfeeding infant. The databases PubMed, CINAHL, Proquest Health and Medical Complete, ScienceDirect and ISI Web of Knowledge were searched for articles published between 1990 and 2005. We found limited research investigating the effect of alcohol intake on the infants of lactating women, with most being conducted using animal models. Results consistently show a decrease in lactational performance in both animal and human studies of alcohol intake and breastfeeding. Alcohol intake by lactating mothers in amounts recommended as 'safe' for nonlactating women may have a negative effect on infant development and behaviour. Clear guidelines for alcohol consumption are required for lactating women and health professionals to guide breastfeeding mothers to make educated choices regarding alcohol intake during this critical period of infant development.

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Prolactin Secretion After Beer

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

Energy balance, early life body size, and plasma prolactin levels in postmenopausal women

Energy balance, early life body size, and plasma prolactin levels in postmenopausal women

Beer, breast feeding, and folklore

Alcohol and lactation: A systematic review

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