THE INFLUENCE OF WARM STEAM WITH PEPPERMINT
AROMATHERAPY TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION
OF BREAST MILK IN SIALANG VILLAGE PALEMBANG 2015

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Title

THE INFLUENCE OF WARM STEAM WITH PEPPERMINT
AROMATHERAPY TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION
OF BREAST MILK IN SIALANG VILLAGE PALEMBANG 2015

Subject

Keywords: Warm Steam, Peppermint Aromatherapy, Production of Breast Milk

Description

Background: Support and efficacy of breast milk is great, but mother always experience of
any problems when do it. Mother’s psychological factors are affect to increase the production
of breast milk. The complementary of warm steam with peppermint aromatherapy, can be
done to obtain relaxation toward the physical condition and psychological postpartum. The
purpose of this research to know the influence of warm steam with peppermint aromatherapy
to production of breast milk on mother’s postpartum. Methods: The design of research is
quasi experimental pretest-posttest with control group. The sampling technique research was
use consecutive sampling. The samples to this research is mothers postpartum with normal
childbirth, totaled 15 samples for the intervention group and 15 samples to the control group.

Results: Data analysis to this research use different analysis mean dependent sample paired t-
test. The result of statistical tests obtained p value = 0.084, so can be concluded there is no

difference breast milk production between the control group with intervention group before
given warm steam with peppermint aromatherapy. Peppermint aroma can make skeletal
muscle relax, so blood vessels will vasodilation to increase blood flow into the breast.
Conclusion: Statistic test results obtained p value = 0.001, it can be inferred there is
difference between the production of breast milk the control group with intervention group
after given treatment warm stream with peppermint aromatherapy. Therefore, mother’s
postpartum still need trained to able to perform a warm steam therapy with aroma peppermint
independently at home.

Creator

Mediarti D1
, Rosnani2
, Sulaiman3

Publisher

2
nd INTERNATIONAL NURSING CONFERENCE

“NURSING ROLE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL
ACHIEVEMENT BASED ON COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT”

Date

2015

Format

PDF

Language

BAHASA INGGRIS

Type

PROSIDING INTERNASIONAL

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