Rabiepoor S, et al. – The goal of the present study is to scrutinize impacts of coffee on bowel function after caesarean section. Drinking coffee after a caesarean section decreases time to first flatus in patients. Nevertheless, further studies are needed to inspect impacts of coffee on ileus after elective caesarean section.

Methods

• For this study, a sum of 100 patients after elective caesarean section were randomly assigned before surgery into control and intervention groups.
• In this study, the intervention group received 100cc coffee at 8, 12 and 20 hours after the surgery, while the control group received 100cc hot water at the same intervals.
• First bowel sound, first passage of flatus, first defecation, and length of stay after surgery were compared in the two groups.

Results

• Mean time to first flatus passage was recorded in the control (22.54 ± 5.09 hours) and intervention (17.28 ± 4.44 hours) groups and appeared to be statistically significant (p = -0.000).
• However, average time of first defecation (intervention 37.22 ± 16.31 hours; control 36.82 ± 16.5 hours; p = 0.647) and mean time of hospital stay of patients (intervention 30.08 ± 9.50 hours; control 32.16 ± 11.82 hours; p = 0.518) and first bowel sound (intervention 5.84 ± 1.41 hours; control 6.16 ± 1.33 hours; p = -0.326) were not statistically important.