There are many benefits of breast-feeding both for the infant and for the mother. Nursing
mothers who are also taking medications or exposed to environmental hazards may be …

Knowledge of pharmacokinetics and the use of a mechanistic-based approach can improve
our ability to predict the effects of pregnancy for medications when data are limited. Despite …

The trend globally for mothers to breastfeed has highlighted the need for information on drug
transfer into breast milk and the extent to which the suckling neonate may be exposed and …

More than half of women take medications during breastfeeding, predisposing their infants
to medication exposure via breast milk. As a result, adverse drug reactions may emerge in …

Although most medications can be taken safely during breastfeeding, potential risks of infant
toxicity do exist because all medications will be excreted into the breast milk to some extent …

Breastfeeding is the optimal form of infant feeding for the first months of an infant's life, and
the majority of healthy women initiate breastfeeding after the birth of their infant. However …

The relative lack of information on medication use during breastfeeding is an ongoing
problem for health professionals and mothers alike. Most nursing mothers are prescribed …

Assessing the safety of breast feeding during maternal drug therapy is an individualised risk:
benefit analysis. An infant's exposure depends on drug transfer into milk, daily milk intake …

Drugs ingested by a lactating mother would be expected to appear in human milk to some
extent and be ingested by a breast-feeding infant. Drugs pass from maternal plasma into …

Background: Successful practice of clinical perinatal pharmacology requires a thorough
understanding of the pronounced physiological changes during lactation and how these …