How safe to breastfeed the baby while taking medicine?
Biuty love sharing.. Mothers’ milk The safe use of medicines during breastfeeding is not an easy topic to study, but new parents deserve better information on the risks and benefits. When Janet Woodcock first started to practise medicine nearly 40 years ago, she quickly realized that her training had not equipped her to deal with a common dilemma. New mothers were being encouraged to breastfeed their children, but was it safe to do so if they were taking medication? “I had never received one word of information on that situation,” says Woodcock, who now heads the US Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Woodcock’s patients, she says, were “frantic” to do the best for their babies. But in the absence of data on whether and how a medicine could affect their newborn, mothers were often forced to decide between their own health and their child’s. The prevailing medical advice — then and now — was, in case of doubt, to stop breastfeed...