Covid-19 and Breastfeeding

  The recent COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many concerns about the transmission of the virus from mother to newborn. This is more important due to the management of breastfeeding. This study aimed to review the latest studies on newborns breastfeeding in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods and Materials: This is a review study. In this study, articles about newborns breastfeeding in COVID-19 pandemic of published from December 2019  to May 2020 were selected via a search into the electronic databases of SID, PubMed, Scopus, Direct Science, Google Scholar, Ovid, MagIran, using the key ward of new coronavirus, COVID-19, breast milk, breastfeeding.   

In this paper, the principles of publication ethics were considered.

The results of this study showed that, So far, there is no evidence of a new coronavirus in breast milk or transmission of COVID-19 through breastfeeding, all mothers with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, should continue to breastfeed in accordance with the principles of hygiene and respiratory precaution.

Breastfeeding protects the baby against infectious diseases. It should be noted that studies on the absence of the coronavirus in breast milk are very limited, this study describes breastfeeding the current state of COVID-19. While there are still many unknowns of this emerging disease Therefore, more studies are needed to manage breastfeeding in the COVID-19 pandemic.