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Breastfeeding and medications is the description of the medications that can be used by a breastfeeding mother, and the balance between maternal health and the safety of the breastfeeding infant.[1][2] Medications, when administered to breastfeeding mothers, almost always are transferred to breast milk, albeit usually in small quantities.[3] The degree of impact on the nursing infant varies, with many medications posing minimal risk. Nonetheless, informed decision-making and professional guidance is needed.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) maintains a database, which contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate.[4]

Some medications and herbal supplements can be of concern. This can be because the drug can accumulate in breastmilk or have effects on the infant and the mother. Those medications of concern are those medications used to treat substance and alcohol addiction. Other medications of concern are those that are used in smoking cessation. Pain medications, such as opioids among others, and antidepressants need evaluation.[5]

  1. ^ "The La Leche League InternationalI - Medications and Breastfeeding". La leche League International. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  2. ^ Spencer, Jeanne P.; III, Luis S. Gonzalez; Barnhart, Donna (1 July 2001). "Medications in the Breast-Feeding Mother". American Family Physician. 64 (1): 119–26. PMID 11456429.
  3. ^ "Breastfeeding" (PDF). Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed). 2006. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Breastfeeding and Medication". American Association of Pediatrics. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2017.

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