Excretion of drugs in breast milk

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Breast milk is a quantitatively relatively minor route of drug excretion. Nevertheless, it is clinically important for breastfeeding mothers and their infants. The baby will ingest drugs excreted in the breast milk. Moreover, breast milk has a lower pH than plasma. Accordingly, basic drugs will be concentrated in the breast milk through the.

Most drugs are not of concern in breastfeeding. In addition, most lactating women take few medicines, and then only occasionally. Further, even though virtually all drugs are transferred into breast milk to some extent, the amount of drug is usually small and unlikely to cause an adverse effect on the by: Both physicians and the lay public raise questions about drug excretion in breast milk.

Enhanced interest is seen with the increase in the number of mothers who wish to breast feed. 'Contamination' of breast milk by drugs and environmental chemicals imposes risks, both known and theoretical, to theBrand: Springer Netherlands.

Neither the excretion of dextromethorphan in milk nor its effect on breastfed infants have been studied. It is unlikely that with usual maternal doses amounts in breastmilk would harm the nursing infant, especially in infants over 2 months of age. It is best to avoid the use of products with a high alcohol content while nursing.

Sweat, tears, reproductive fluids (such as seminal fluid), and breast milk can also contain drugs Excretion of drugs in breast milk book byproducts/metabolites of drugs. This can pose a toxic threat, such as the exposure of an infant to breast milk containing drugs or byproducts of drugs ingested by the mother.

Drug excretion into breast milk - Overview. it has become abundantly clear that carrier-mediated processes are involved with excretion of a number of. Diphenhydramine HC1 (Benadryl) may be present in breast milk.5s Personal experience suggests that any effect on the infant of a mother taking therapeutic doses of antihis- tamines is so slight as to be unrecognized.

DISCUSSION Knowledge concerning excretion of drugs in milk is still rather primitive and inconclu- by: PSAP Book 3 • omen’s an en’s ealth 9 Drug Principles in Lactation and immunoglobulins.

However, these large gaps also allow higher-molecular-weight drugs to enter breast milk. Fortu - nately, the volume of milk consumed is low, and the quantity of drug consumed is usually minimal. The volume of milk produced dramatically increasesFile Size: KB.

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Both physicians and the lay public raise questions about drug excretion in breast milk. Enhanced interest is seen with the increase in the number of mothers who wish to breast feed. 'Contamination' of breast milk by drugs and environmental chemicals imposes risks, both known and theoretical, to the infant.

The excretion of drugs in human breast milk is reviewed with regard to milk production, composition, feeding patterns and mechanisms of drug transfer into milk. Fundamental principles of breast milk excretion are used to construct a pharmacokinetic approach useful for the study of most drugs. An infant-modulated 3-compartment open model is Cited by: A review found that most adverse effects of drugs in breast milk occurred in newborns under two months and rarely in those older than six months.

14 An infant’s metabolism and excretion capacity at birth is only a third of what it is at 7–8 months. 15Cited by: Abstract. Unbelievable as it may seem, available information derived from clinical and laboratory research about the excretion of chemicals and drugs in breast milk is scanty, almost by: Radioactivity in milk present 15 h to 3 d *Consult nuclear medicine physician before performing diagnostic study so that radionuclide that has the shortest excretion t.

Previous reports on the excretion of I into human breast milk have recommended discontinuance of breast feeding from 1 to 12 days following diagnostic tracer doses of I. On day 5 of therapy after taking 2 doses of lorazepam in the previous 8 hours, her lorazepam milk level was mcg/L.

On day 6 after having taken 3 doses in the previous 24 hours, her milk lorazepam level was 89 mcg/L. On day 7, milk levels were 55 and 40 mcg/L at 14 and hours after her last dose, respectively.[3] Infant Levels/ Citalopram and demethylcitalopram in human milk; distribution, excretion and effects in breast fed infants / Rampono J, Kristensen JH, Hackett LP, Paech M, Kohan R and Ilett KF / Drug therapy and breastfeeding / risk - benefit analysis / Kristensen JH and Ilett KF / Author: Karen Rickman.

The excretion of drugs in human milk is reviewed with regard to milk secretion, composition, feeding patterns and mechanisms of drug transfer into milk. Fundamental principles of milk secretion are used to construct a pharmacokinetic approach useful for the study of most drugs.

An infant-modulated 3-compartment open model is proposed for drug distribution and elimination Cited by: Drugs in Breast Milk | Both physicians and the lay public raise questions about drug excretion in breast milk. Enhanced interest is seen with the increase in the number of mothers who wish to breast feed.

'Contamination' of breast milk by drugs and environmental chemicals imposes risks, both known and theoretical, to the infant.

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Most drugs are excreted into milk by passive diffusion. Accordingly, drug concentration in milk is directly proportional to the corresponding concentration in matemnal plasma. The milk-to-maternal plasma drugCited by: Following 2 months' treatment with 20 mg fluoxetine (an antidepressant) per day, blood plasma levels of ng fluoxetine and ng norfluoxetine (a metabolite presumed to be active) per ml were found.

Corresponding levels in breast milk were and ng/ml. Thus nursing mothers treated with fluoxetine should be warned that the drug is excreted into breast by:   Principles of Drug Transfer into Breast Milk and Drug Disposition in the Nursing Infant Robin L.

Breitzka, PharmD, Tracy L. Sandritter, PharmD, and Fotini K. Hatzopoulos, PharmD Journal of Human Lactation 2, Cited by: