Back to Health and lifestyle. If you take medication while breastfeeding, it will be transferred to your baby through breast milk. In most cases, the amount passed to your baby is very small and unlikely to cause harm. But some drugs can become concentrated in breast milk. A small number of these are not safe to take while breastfeeding. In most cases, there is another medication that can be safely used instead.
Your GP or pharmacist can recommend suitable medication for your situation. Their recommendation will be based on many factors. Sleep when your baby sleeps and ask for help at home if you need it. Breastfeeding your baby when you're sick is generally safe.
In rare cases, you may need to stop breastfeeding if you have a serious illness. Talk to your GP if you are worried. For most illnesses, continuing to breastfeed will pass on immunity cells to your baby. But it's always best to tell your doctor, dentist or pharmacist that you're breastfeeding.
You can use some methods of contraception and some cold remedies, but not all. Always check with a GP, your midwife, health visitor or a pharmacist, who can advise you. It's fine to have dental treatments, local anaesthetics, vaccinations including MMR, tetanus and flu jabs and most operations. Common medicines that are not recommended when you're breastfeeding include:. Unfortunately some mums stop breastfeeding while taking medications to treat conditions because of unfounded concern or inappropriate advice, but only rarely does the amount transferred into breastmilk produce clinically relevant doses in the infant.
Remember to watch for signs of possible side effects in your baby such as increased sleepiness, poor feeding, rash and severe diarrhoea. If these are troublesome and continued, contact your doctor.
Always ask your pharmacist what is in a medicine and tell them you are breastfeeding. Breastfeeding mothers may continue to breastfeed after immunisation with influenza flu vaccine. Most antibiotics transfer into breastmilk, but the amount ingested by an infant is unlikely to cause serious harmful effects. However someantibiotics can cause changes in gut bacteria and infants should be observed for adverse effects such as diarrhoea, vomiting, skin rashes or thrush.
Penicillin antibiotics including amoxicillin, amoxicillin with clavulanate and flucloxacillin , cefalexin, erythromycin and azithromycin are considered safe. Metronidazole is considered safe in doses up to mg three times a day, although it may give the milk a bitter taste.
Both pyrantel and mebendazole are considered safe as they are poorly absorbed from the gut and are unlikely to be passed into breast milk in clinically relevant amounts. Topical antifungal cream and pessaries containing clotrimazole, miconazole and nystatin are safe to use while breastfeeding. Antiviral medicines such as aciclovir cream can be used in breastfeeding, and if the cold sores are severe an oral course of aciclovir or valaciclovir from your doctor would be considered safe to use whilst breastfeeding.
These options are preferred to famciclovir which has no published data on how much enters breastmilk. Apply plenty of hair conditioner to the dry hair until saturated, use ordinary comb to remove tangles, then use metal fine tooth nit comb in 4 directions forward, backward, left and right.
Remove lice from comb. Rinse out and dry hair. Repeat every 1 to 2 days over a 10 day treatment period. Treatment should be repeated in 7 days to kill lice that have hatched. Some antidepressants are considered compatible with breastfeeding. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist to discuss your options and for further advice. Or does anyone know if I can gargle with soluble aspirin?
Am in a lot of pain : my baby is 17 weeks. Original poster's comments 1. No strepcils will affect your milk supply. You can use Buttercup throat sweets as they don't contain anything really.
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