The use of antidepressants in breastfeeding mothers is controversial: Manufacters often
routinely discourage breastfeeding for the nursing mother despite the well-known positive …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: The available data on antidepressant levels in nursing infants were analyzed
in order to calculate average infant drug levels and determine what factors influence plasma …

Many new mothers who need antidepressant or mood-stabilising drug treatment may wish to
breastfeed their infants, but are hesitant to do so because of possible harmful effects of the …

Despite the prevalence of depression in lactating mothers, there is a lack of knowledge
about the excretion of antidepressants into breast milk and its potential adverse effects on …

Objective Data regarding the ability of antidepressants to enter fetal, newborn and infant
fluids have become gradually available, but mechanisms of antidepressant transfer remain …

Objective. The relative risk of psychotropic medication use in women with puerperal
psychiatric illness who are breastfeeding has yet to be quantified adequately. Although the …

Introduction: Several concerns have been raised regarding the reproductive safety of the
antidepressants most frequently used in clinical practice, such as selective serotonin …

1 The excretion of a 6 mg subcutaneous dose of sumatriptan in breast milk was studied in
five lactating volunteer subjects with a mean age of 27.6 years and a mean body weight of …

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 …