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Prospective Trial of L-tryptophan in Maternity Blues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brian Harris
Brian Harris*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
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Summary

Under double blind conditions 55 young, bottle feeding, multiparous women received L-tryptophan 3 g daily or placebo for ten days after delivery, and were also assessed daily for psychiatric symptoms. This treatment did not reduce ‘maternity blues', but the mothers' blues scores correlated significantly with the scores for anxiety, depression and hysteria on the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire given in the eighth month of pregnancy.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 137 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 233 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980 

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