Further, the effects
of pseudoephedrine for nasal congestion have not been widely studied in very young children.
Not exact matches
Most decongestants are considered safe
for breastfeeding, and less than 1 percent
of the most commonly used one,
pseudoephedrine, ends up in breast milk.
For some women, taking
pseudoephedrine (the active ingredient in Sudafed) will reduce milk supply — a small study
of lactating women showed that one dose
of Sudafed reduced milk supply over the next 24 hours by 24 %.
Surprisingly, a common decongestant, Sudafed (
pseudoephedrine), may be helpful
for putting a halt to lactation, according to research published in the British Journal
of Clinical Pharmacology in 2003.
Several athletes have been sanctioned
for the presence
of small amounts
of pseudoephedrine in their systems that they insisted came from cold medicine.