Which drugs are contraindicated during breastfeeding?

Drugs contraindicated during breastfeeding include anticancer drugs, lithium, oral retinoids, iodine, amiodarone and gold salts. An understanding of the principles underlying the transfer into breast milk is important, as is an awareness of the potential adverse effects on the infant.

What happens if you do drugs while breastfeeding?

Cocaine and its breakdown products pass from the mother into the breast milk and babies are very sensitive to these substances. Babies exposed to cocaine through breast milk may experience extreme irritability, tremulousness, vomiting, and diarrhea.

What drugs accumulate in breast milk?

The use of the following drugs in breast feeding mothers is reviewed: anticoagulants, antihypertensives and diuretics, antimicrobials, drugs affecting the central nervous system (alcohol, chloral hydrate, meprobamate, lithium, and aspirin), marijuana, other drugs (antihistamines, atropine, ergot alkaloids, laxatives.

Do drugs pass through breast milk?

You can pass harmful things, like alcohol, drugs and lead, to your baby in breast milk. This can cause serious problems for your baby. Don’t smoke, drink alcohol or use harmful drugs when you’re breastfeeding.

Can you test for drugs in breast milk?

High concentrations of cocaine are found in breastmilk screening in recreational users and levels are extremely varied and have been found in the urine of breastfeeding infants 24 to 36 hours after maternal use.

Can drugs be excreted through breast milk?

It is projected, from estimated steady-state milk concentrations of the drugs and their metabolites studied, that very low percentages of the therapeutic dosages (less than 0.7%) would be excreted in mother’s milk, too low an amount to be clinically significant to the infant.

Can drugs get into your breast milk?

If you do use drugs such as amphetamines or heroin as a one-off, you will need to express your breast milk in the 24 hours afterwards and throw it away before you breastfeed again. After using drugs, it is not safe for you to care for or breastfeed your baby.

How long does aspirin stay in breastmilk?

Drugs to relieve headache, aches, pain or fever Aspirin is safe to take for pain occasionally. Try not to breastfeed for 1 to 2 hours after taking the dose to minimise the amount in your breastmilk.

What can’t you do while breastfeeding?