1
|
Morais PEDO, Nassif MS, Costa ACB, Freitas PS, Sampaio RS, Costa ICP. Online scientific research on placentophagy: a bibliometric analysis. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE GINECOLOGIA E OBSTETRÍCIA 2024; 46:e-rbgo4. [PMID: 38765532 PMCID: PMC11075423 DOI: 10.61622/rbgo/2024ar04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Objective To classify the bibliometric indicators of online scientific research on placentophagy. Methods A bibliometric study was conducted to quantify the scientific production of authors and institutions with the aim of highlighting the growth and impact of these publications nationally and internationally. The Bradford Law, network maps, and textual statistics were used, with searches conducted in libraries and databases in October 2021. Results The sample consisted of 64 articles, whose primary authors were associated with 49 institutions, and mostly with degrees in anthropology. The United States of America was the country that published the most papers on the theme, and most studies were reviews with individual production. Through the term analysis, it was found that the predominant themes regarding placentophagy were the following: Alternative therapy for women's health, methodologies used for research in this area, period of placenta ingestion (postpartum period), and its benefits. Conclusion The bibliometric indicators found are essential for the development of future research.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
| | - Melissa Santos Nassif
- Universidade Federal de AlfenasAlfenasMGBrazilUniversidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, MG, Brazil.
| | | | - Patrícia Scotini Freitas
- Universidade Federal de AlfenasAlfenasMGBrazilUniversidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, MG, Brazil.
| | - Rômulo Severo Sampaio
- Universidade Federal da ParaíbaJoão PessoaPBBrazilUniversidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
| | | |
Collapse
|
2
|
Carreon CK, Ravishankar S, Parast MM, Castro EC, Baergen RN, Bonasoni MP, Cady FM, Comstock JM, Ernst LM, Kostadinov S, Linn RL, Poulin A, Sarita-Reyes CD, Zhang J, Roberts DJ. Releasing Placentas to Families: A Unified Recommendation From the Perinatal Committee of the Society for Pediatric Pathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2023; 147:515-517. [PMID: 37130191 DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2022-0425-le] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Chrystalle Katte Carreon
- Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Sanjita Ravishankar
- Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Mana M Parast
- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego
| | - Eumenia C Castro
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
| | - Rebecca N Baergen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
| | - Maria Paola Bonasoni
- Pathology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
| | | | - Jessica M Comstock
- Division of Pediatric Pathology, University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City
| | - Linda M Ernst
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois
- Department of Pathology, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
| | - Stefan Kostadinov
- Department of Pathology, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| | - Rebecca L Linn
- Division of Anatomic Pathology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
| | - Alysa Poulin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
| | - Carmen D Sarita-Reyes
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Jie Zhang
- Department of Pathology, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
- Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
| | - Drucilla J Roberts
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston
| |
Collapse
|
3
|
Planned home births: The role of the primary care NP. Nurse Pract 2020; 45:18-24. [PMID: 32205669 DOI: 10.1097/01.npr.0000657308.08936.59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Over the past 15 years, there has been a steady resurgence of planned home births in the US. Multiple factors may impact health outcomes for mother and baby. NPs have the opportunity to provide reliable information to women to help ensure a safe delivery and to optimize care for the neonate.
Collapse
|
4
|
Farr A, Chervenak FA, McCullough LB, Grünebaum A. Placentophagy among women planning community births in the United States: Frequency, rationale, and associated neonatal outcomes. Birth 2019; 46:201-202. [PMID: 30058077 DOI: 10.1111/birt.12375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alex Farr
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Obstetrics and Feto-Maternal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
| | - Frank A Chervenak
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
| | | | - Amos Grünebaum
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
| |
Collapse
|
5
|
|
6
|
Benyshek DC, Cheyney M, Brown J, Bovbjerg ML. Placentophagy among women planning community births in the United States: Frequency, rationale, and associated neonatal outcomes. Birth 2018; 45:459-468. [PMID: 29722066 DOI: 10.1111/birt.12354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Limited systematic research on maternal placentophagy is available to maternity care providers whose clients/patients may be considering this increasingly popular practice. Our purpose was to characterize the practice of placentophagy and its attendant neonatal outcomes among a large sample of women in the United States. METHODS We used a medical records-based data set (n = 23 242) containing pregnancy, birth, and postpartum information for women who planned community births. We used logistic regression to determine demographic and clinical predictors of placentophagy. Finally, we compared neonatal outcomes (hospitalization, neonatal intensive unit admission, or neonatal death in the first 6 weeks) between placenta consumers and nonconsumers, and participants who consumed placenta raw vs cooked. RESULTS Nearly one-third (30.8%) of women consumed their placenta. Consumers were more likely to have reported pregravid anxiety or depression compared with nonconsumers. Most (85.3%) placentophagic mothers consumed their placentas in encapsulated form, and nearly half (48.4%) consumed capsules containing dehydrated, uncooked placenta. Placentophagy was not associated with any adverse neonatal outcomes. Women with home births were more likely to engage in placentophagy than women with birth center births. The most common reason given (73.1%) for engaging in placentophagy was to prevent postpartum depression. [Corrections added on 16 May 2018, after first online publication: The percentage values in the Results sections were updated.] CONCLUSIONS: The majority of women consumed their placentas in uncooked/encapsulated form and hoping to avoid postpartum depression, although no evidence currently exists to support this strategy. Preparation technique (cooked vs uncooked) did not influence adverse neonatal outcomes. Maternity care providers should discuss the range of options available to prevent/treat postpartum depression, in addition to current evidence with respect to the safety of placentophagy.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel C Benyshek
- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
| | - Melissa Cheyney
- Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
| | - Jennifer Brown
- College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
| | - Marit L Bovbjerg
- College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
| |
Collapse
|
7
|
Young SM, Gryder LK, Cross C, Zava D, Kimball DW, Benyshek DC. Placentophagy’s effects on mood, bonding, and fatigue: A pilot trial, part 2. Women Birth 2018; 31:e258-e271. [DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2017.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 11/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
|
8
|
Human placentophagy: a review. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2018; 218:401.e1-401.e11. [PMID: 28859955 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Revised: 08/03/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Placentophagy or placentophagia, the postpartum ingestion of the placenta, is widespread among mammals; however, no contemporary human culture incorporates eating placenta postpartum as part of its traditions. At present, there is an increasing interest in placentophagy among postpartum women, especially in the United States. The placenta can be eaten raw, cooked, roasted, dehydrated, or encapsulated or through smoothies and tinctures. The most frequently used preparation appears to be placenta encapsulation after steaming and dehydration. Numerous companies offer to prepare the placenta for consumption, although the evidence for positive effects of human placentophagy is anecdotal and limited to self-reported surveys. Without any scientific evidence, individuals promoting placentophagy, especially in the form of placenta encapsulation, claim that it is associated with certain physical and psychosocial benefits. We found that there is no scientific evidence of any clinical benefit of placentophagy among humans, and no placental nutrients and hormones are retained in sufficient amounts after placenta encapsulation to be potentially helpful to the mother postpartum. In contrast to the belief of clinical benefits associated with human placentophagy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a warning due to a case in which a newborn infant developed recurrent neonatal group B Streptococcus sepsis after the mother ingested contaminated placenta capsules containing Streptococcus agalactiae. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that the intake of placenta capsules should be avoided owing to inadequate eradication of infectious pathogens during the encapsulation process. Therefore, in response to a woman who expresses an interest in placentophagy, physicians should inform her about the reported risks and the absence of clinical benefits associated with the ingestion. In addition, clinicians should inquire regarding a history of placenta ingestion in cases of postpartum maternal or neonatal infections such as group B Streptococcus sepsis. In conclusion, there is no professional responsibility on clinicians to offer placentophagy to pregnant women. Moreover, because placentophagy is potentially harmful with no documented benefit, counseling women should be directive: physicians should discourage this practice. Health care organizations should develop clear clinical guidelines to implement a scientific and professional approach to human placentophagy.
Collapse
|