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 …

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 …

Section 1 describes the benefits of breastfeeding to both mother and infant as well as the
potential risks to the infant from maternal drug use. The extent of adverse drug-related …

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 …

Human milk is the most appropriate form of nutrition for infants while taking medication
during the postpartum period is common. Discontinuation of breastfeeding is sometimes …

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 …

Background. This article describes the principles of drug transfer into breast milk and how
drugs may affect breast-fed infants, and provides practical advice about what should be …

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 …

Infant feeding is an emotional topic which has become a political issue. There is a danger
that concern over adverse effects of drugs given to nursing mothers might also be assessed …

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 …