Riscos e benefícios da amamentação frente a pandemia de Covid-19

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Breastfeeding plays an important role in the mother-child binomial and in the development of children. It is known that breastfeeding women are also susceptible to contracting the virus, which brings to light several insecurities on the part of nursing mothers and health professionals. OBJECTIVE: To identify information on the risks and benefits of breastfeeding in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: This is a literature review, which aims to locate, analyze, synthesize and interpret previous research related to your area of ​​study, divided into two moments, where in the 1st moment we will perform a search for articles through the databases and in the 2nd moment additional searches on websites of class societies. RESULTS: The search was performed in two moments, initially, a total of 403 articles were found in the PUBMED, Academic Google and Scielo databases, after reading the abstracts, 8 articles were selected for full reading. In order to complement the search, in the second moment, it was carried out on reference sites for expert opinion. CONCLUSION: With this work, it can be concluded that the act of breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a great challenge. There are still many challenges to be faced by mothers and health professionals for breastfeeding to happen effectively