Such reports may substantially increase the pediatric community's fund of knowledge regarding drug
transfer into human milk and the potential or actual risk to the infant.
To be clear, medications will
transfer into human milk to some degree, although it is very often in low quantities and rarely enough to produce clinically significant doses in the nursing infant.
As the paper explains, there would have to be clinically significant amounts of drug
excreted into human milk in order for it to pose a threat to an infant, and not all drugs are excreted in this amount.
Written by world - renowned Clinical Pharmacologist, Dr. Thomas Hale, and assisted by Dr. Hilary Rowe, this drug reference provides everything that is known about the transfer of various
medications into human milk, the use of radiopharmaceuticals, the use of chemotherapeutic agents, and vaccines in breastfeeding mothers.
A 2013 study on the transfer of
drugs into human milk, published in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) News & Journal, explains how women who are advised to stop nursing when taking medications are given this advice because of the largely errant belief that the drugs may have negative effects on their babies.
Table 6: Maternal Medication Usually Compatible With Breast - Feeding, from the AAP Policy Statement The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals
Into Human Milk, revised September 2001.
The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals
Into Human Milk.
American Academy of Pediatrics «The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals
into Human Milk.»
Policy Statement: The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals
Into Human Milk.