Breastfeeding and Drugs

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

Reviewed March 2009

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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:   May 2009
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:   Mar 2009
Title:   Antibiotics for mastitis in breastfeeding women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Inflammation of breast or mastitis could 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 some...
Date:   Jan 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
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
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
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Using cocaine during pregnancy is unwise. It can harm your baby both before and after birth.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Cannabis: pregnancy and breast feeding
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   The use of cannabis during pregnancy is not recommended.
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Amphetamines (speed): pregnancy and breastfeeding
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Amphetamines (speed) used close to birth may directly affect the baby.
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Asthma, pregnancy and breast feeding
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:   Aug 2006
Title:   Diabetes and getting pregnant
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Your questions answered about how to ensure you have a safe pregnancy if you have diabetes.
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Antipsychotic drugs for non-affective psychosis during pregnancy and postpartum
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women who suffer with psychotic conditions who become pregnant are usually treated with antipsychotic drugs. The risks of harm to the offspring associated with exposure to these drugs, in utero or through breast-feeding, are unknown. We aimed to find go...
Date:   Jan 2004
Title:   Breastfeeding A baby's choice
Publisher:   Australian Breastfeeding Association
Description:   This article describes the moments after birth when it is a baby's choice to initiate breastfeeding. It looks at some of the factors which can interfere with this natural process.
Date:   Aug 2000
Title:   Breastfeeding and the use of recreational drugs - alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and marijuana
Publisher:   Australian Breastfeeding Association
Description:   This paper both reviews the current literature and explores anecdotal information as reported by Nursing Mothers' (now Australian Breastfeeding Association) breastfeeding counsellors relating to breastfeeding and the use of alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and marijuana.
Date:   Aug 1998
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