Breastfeeding and Drugs

Follow the links below to find information about the effects of using various drugs or medicines while breastfeeding.

Reviewed May 2011

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Title:   Breastfeeding and travel
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Breast milk protects your baby from illness and infection, so it is the safest drink for your baby while travelling. You won't have to worry about access to artificial baby milk, clean water or heating facilities. You may experience a drop in milk supply due to dehydration after flying or illness (such as travellers' diarrhoea).
Date:   Feb 2012
Title:   Medications for increasing milk supply in mothers expressing breastmilk for their hospitalised infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breastmilk remains the optimal form of enteral nutrition for term and preterm infants until up to six months postnatal age. Mothers of premature and sick infants are separated from their infants while they are receiving hospital-based care. These mother...
Date:   Feb 2012
Title:   Mastitis causes, prevention and treatment
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   Information about Mastitis causes and treatment.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   I'm pregnant - can I take it?
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   Most medicines are safe to use during pregnancy and breastfeeding. However, some can cause considerable harm to your baby. Find out things you need to consider if you're pregnant or breastfeeding.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Breastfeeding - medicines and drugs
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Lots of different things can pass from the mother's body into the breast milk, including things you eat and drink.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Analgesics and pain relief in pregnancy and breastfeeding
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Women should be reassured that pain can be treated during pregnancy and lactation and that they need not suffer unnecessarily.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Breastfeeding and drugs
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Drugs taken by a breastfeeding mother may pass into the milk. This fact sheet is a general guide for breastfeeding mothers.
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Antibiotics for mastitis in breastfeeding women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Inflammation of the breast, or mastitis, can be infective or non-infective. Infective mastitis is one of the most common infections experienced by breastfeeding women. The condition (infective or not) varies in severity, ranging from mild symptoms with ...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Asthma, pregnancy and breast feeding - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   If you have asthma, being pregnant or breast feeding should present no problems, providing you continue to control your asthma effectively.
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Diabetes and getting pregnant - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Your questions answered about how to ensure you have a safe pregnancy if you have diabetes.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Human swine flu - advice for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   The human swine influenza virus (Pandemic (H1N1 2009)) is a new and different strain of flu that is infecting people and spreading from person to person in the same way seasonal influenza and other common respiratory infections spread.
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   There are effective medicines to stop people with epilepsy having fits. Some of these drugs, however, can cause harm to an unborn baby if a woman takes them during pregnancy.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy and lactation
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Uncontrolled epilepsy in a pregnant woman is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition for both mother and child. Most pregnant women with epilepsy will need to take at least one antiepileptic drug.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding (Comments for consumers)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Many women taking antipsychotic medications are worried about the effects of the drugs on their baby during pregnancy and when they are breastfeeding. Although it is not clear how safe they are to use, many mothers taking these medications have healthy babies.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   There are limited data on the safety of antipsychotic drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Reports of congenital abnormalities in the babies of women taking typical antipsychotics are uncommon, although chlorpromazine may cause symptoms in the neonate. No increased risk with atypical antipsychotics has yet emerged.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Antidepressants in pregnancy and breastfeeding
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Clinicians must consider the risk of damage from the medications and the effects of the illness itself on both the mother and the baby.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Antidepressants in pregnancy and breastfeeding (Comments for consumers)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   For many women with depression, deciding whether or not to take antidepressants while they are pregnant or breastfeeding is difficult.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Metformin in pregnancy and lactation
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Metformin improves insulin sensitivity and reduces hepatic glucose output in patients with diabetes.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Malaria precautions while pregnant or breast feeding - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Malaria infection in pregnant women may be more severe than in non-pregnant women.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Cocaine: pregnancy and breast feeding - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Using cocaine during pregnancy is unwise. It can harm your baby both before and after birth.
Date:   Mar 2007

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