Cooling treatment (ice pack) vs cooling treatment (cold gel pad)
Perineal pain within 24 hours of giving birth ‐ Moderate + severe pain · Women with perineal trauma (tear or episiotomy, or both) sustained during childbirth
It is very uncertain whether cooling treatment (ice pack) changes perineal pain within 24 hours of giving birth ‐ Moderate + severe pain compared with cooling treatment (cold gel pad) (very low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Local cooling for relieving pain from perineal trauma sustained during childbirth 2020 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.98 [0.78, 1.22]2 studies · 264 participantsVery low