Not exact matches
Nursing
mothers who are told they must stop
breastfeeding because of a certain
drug should ask the physician to make sure of this
by checking with reliable sources and / or prescribing an alternative safe medication.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against the use of marijuana during pregnancy and while
breastfeeding: «Street
drugs such as PCP (phencyclidine), cocaine, and cannabis can be detected in human milk, and their use
by breastfeeding mothers is of concern, particularly with regard to the infant's long - term neurobehavioral development and thus are contraindicated.»
Drugs under this category are not safe and must be avoided
by breastfeeding mothers.
Another current article describes the illegal use of
drugs such as hydrocodone, fentanyl, duragesic, and morphine (opiods); taken in combination
by a
breastfeeding mother, resulting in her infant's death.
New labeling rules proposed
by the FDA expand this information significantly, offering
breastfeeding mothers a detailed explanation of a
drug's risks and ways to minimize a nursing infant's exposure.
Medications and
Mother's Milk: A Manual of Lactational Pharmacology
by Thomas Hale Now in its 16th Edition, Medications and
Mothers» Milk, is the worldwide best selling drug reference on the use of medications in breastfeeding m
Mothers» Milk, is the worldwide best selling
drug reference on the use of medications in
breastfeeding mothersmothers.
Written
by a world - renown clinical pharmacologist, Dr. Thomas Hale, this
drug reference provides includes everything that is known about the transfer of various medications into human milk, and the use of radiopharmaceuticals, the use of chemotherapeutic agents, and vaccines in
breastfeeding mothers.
Use of social
drugs by a minority of pregnant and
breastfeeding mothers is a fact of life.
HIV Medicine DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2011.00918.x IBFAN - Asia Position Statement on HIV and Infant Feeding, 13 October 2008 South African Tshwane Declaration on
breastfeeding, S Afr J Clin Nutr 2011; 24 (4) UNAIDS 2010, Strategy Getting to Zero, UNAIDS Strategy 2011 — 2015 UNAIDS 2010, Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV, 2010 - 2014 UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children
by 2015 and keeping their
mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 Press Release, 9 June, World leaders launch plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children
by 2015 UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF 2010, Facts for Life UNICEF 2011, Programming Guide, Infant and Young Child Feeding, 26 May 2011 WHO / UNICEF 2003, Global strategy for infant and young child feeding WHO 2007, Evidence on the long - term effects of
breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta - analysis WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF 2009, Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV / AIDS interventions in the health sector: progress report 2009 WHO 2009, Women and health, Today's evidence tomorrow's agenda WHO 2009, Acceptable medical reasons for use of breast - milk substitutes WHO 2009, Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral
drugs for treating pregnant womenand preventing HIV Infection in infants WHO 2009, Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV WHO 2010, Priority Interventions — HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding: Principles and recomendations for infant feeding in the context of HIV and a summary of evidence WHO 2010, Annexure 7b to Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding.
It would be unethical to conduct a controlled study that might put a baby at risk
by deliberately giving the
breastfeeding mother drugs.
Among the 3 infants whose
mothers used the
drug late in pregnancy but discontinued the medication during
breastfeeding, the adjusted mean z scores were still higher
by 0.86 units, compared with the adjusted mean scores of infants with postnatal exposure whose
mothers also had used the
drug late in pregnancy.
The Committee on
Drugs therefore has not placed nicotine (and thus smoking) in any of the Tables but hopes that the interest in
breastfeeding by a smoking woman will serve as a point of discussion about smoking cessation between the pediatrician and the prospective lactating woman or nursing
mother.
Drug exposure to the nursing infant may be minimized
by having the
mother take the medication just after she has
breastfed the infant or just before the infant is due to have a lengthy sleep period.
The purpose of this study was to examine weight gain in infants who are
breastfed by mothers who take fluoxetine during pregnancy and after birth, compared with infants
breastfed by mothers who have taken the
drug sometime during pregnancy but not during the
breastfeeding period.
Medications that are not safe to take when
breastfeeding: Some
drugs can be taken
by a nursing
mother if she stops
breastfeeding for a few days or weeks.
Some
drugs can be taken
by a nursing
mother if she stops
breastfeeding for a few days or weeks.
She also instinctively bends her legs completing the protective space around the baby, making it impossible for another person to roll onto the baby without first coming into contact with her legs.15, 16 A
breastfeeding mother who co-sleeps with her baby (and has not consumed alcohol, illegal or sleep - inducing
drugs or extreme fatigue) also tends to be highly responsive to her baby's needs.17, 18 Studies show more frequent arousals in both
mothers and babies when they co-sleep, and some researchers have suggested that this may be protective against sudden unexpected infant deaths.19 — 21 Babies are checked
by their
mother and
breastfeed more frequently when co-sleeping than when room - sharing.22, 23
There are different types of anesthesia, and while the majority are considered compatible with
breastfeeding once Mom is alert, to obtain the most accurate information would be to identify the specific
drug that will be used and check its compatibility in a publication called Medication and
Mother's Milk
by Thomas W. Hale, Ph.D..
Nursing
mothers who are told they must stop
breastfeeding because of a certain
drug should ask the physician to make sure of this
by checking with reliable sources.
Subsequently,
by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving
breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her
mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a
mother,
breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained
by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or
drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.