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Many breastfeeding women require and regularly take medicines, especially those available
over-the-counter, and the safe use of these is dependent on the advice provided by health …

Aims To characterise milk/plasma (M/P) ratio and infant exposure, for sertraline and n‐
desmethylsertraline, in breast‐feeding women taking sertraline for the treatment of …

Breastfeeding is the recommended feeding method for infants. The decision to allow women
to breastfeed while consuming alcohol and other drugs postpartum presents a problem for …

Most drugs are excreted into breast milk to some extent and are bioavailable to the infant.
The ability to predict the approximate amount of drug that might be present in milk from the …

Exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors can affect hormone‐dependent
processes, such as the brain sexual differentiation. Because the use of these …

A large database of milk/plasma ratios, M/P, for 179 drugs and hydrophobic environmental
pollutants has been constructed from literature data. Application of linear analyses shows …

Objectives: The postnatal period is a time of increased onset and relapse of mental illness. It
poses a clinical dilemma, as many mothers requiring medication acutely or prophylactically …

Objectives: The transfer of xenobiotic compounds into human breast milk has raised serious
concerns in the last few years. The present study is aimed to assess whether simple …

Post-anaesthetic advice imparted to breastfeeding mothers can vary. This is due in part to
the differing information from published data, product information sheets and inevitably from …