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The use of herbal medicines during breastfeeding: a population-based survey in Western Australia

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, November 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Title
The use of herbal medicines during breastfeeding: a population-based survey in Western Australia
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, November 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-13-317
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Authors

Tin Fei Sim, Jillian Sherriff, H Laetitia Hattingh, Richard Parsons, Lisa BG Tee

Abstract

Main concerns for lactating women about medications include the safety of their breastfed infants and the potential effects of medication on quantity and quality of breast milk. While medicine treatments include conventional and complementary medicines, most studies to date have focused on evaluating the safety aspect of conventional medicines. Despite increasing popularity of herbal medicines, there are currently limited data available on the pattern of use and safety of these medicines during breastfeeding. This study aimed to identify the pattern of use of herbal medicines during breastfeeding in Perth, Western Australia, and to identify aspects which require further clinical research.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 171 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 33 19%
Student > Master 24 14%
Researcher 15 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 7%
Lecturer 8 5%
Other 33 19%
Unknown 49 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 20 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 6%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 15 9%
Unknown 55 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2022.
All research outputs
#2,042,369
of 23,408,972 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#367
of 3,689 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,526
of 214,017 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#15
of 93 outputs
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