Top Ten Medication Tips for the Public in 2020
Breastfeeding medications should be carefully selected
maternal and child health is the most important
medications used by breastfeeding mothers are related to the health of the mother and baby and must be treated with extreme caution. How to use drugs safely and rationally during breastfeeding so that mothers can recover as soon as possible without affecting the health of the baby? Pay special attention to the following points:
1. Try to choose single-component medicines and avoid compound preparations.
2. The immediate release dosage form should be selected, and the slow/controlled release dosage form should be avoided.
3. Choose to take the medicine immediately after breastfeeding to extend the next breastfeeding time. It is best to choose before the baby sleeps for a long time.
4. Pay attention to the baby's physical changes during medication, and whether there are adverse reactions.
5. Commonly used drugs that can be used safely during lactation: antibiotics, penicillins and cephalosporins; cold antipyretics, acetaminophen and ibuprofen; anti-allergic drugs, loratadine and cetirizine, etc.
6. Certain drugs will enter the baby's body through the mother's milk. Drugs that affect the normal development of the baby's tissues and organs should be prohibited during breastfeeding. For example, after a nursing mother takes iodine, 27% of the drug is excreted through the breast milk, and when taken by the baby, it will inhibit the child’s pituitary gland from secreting thyroid stimulating hormone, thereby affecting the child’s development and function; the content of morphine addiction analgesics in the milk is very high. High, proportional to the amount of medicine used by the lactating mother. Ingestion by the baby can inhibit the respiratory center and endanger the child's life; the lactating mother taking tetracycline drugs can cause the baby's tetracycline teeth; the use of isoniazid, meprobamate, and ergotamine can cause the baby Poisoning; nursing mothers using aminopyrine drugs can affect the infant’s hematopoietic function; the application of sulfa drugs can cause kernicterus in the infant; after the application of Dixiyang (Valium), the infant can lose weight and suffer from hyperbilirubinemia ; The application of kanamycin and gentamicin in nursing mothers can poison the babies. If mothers urgently need to use related drugs due to illness, they should suspend breastfeeding, and regularly suck out the milk, and then resume breastfeeding after 5 to 7 half-lives of the drug.
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Finally, breast-feeding patients should be reminded not to self-administer drugs. Under the guidance of doctors and pharmacists, give priority to drugs that can be used safely during breast-feeding to minimize the effects of drugs on babies.
Source: National Medical Products Administration website
