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Review
. 1993 Jul;48(7):616-25.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1993.tb07130.x.

Breast feeding and anaesthesia

J J Lee  1 , A P Rubin
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Review

Breast feeding and anaesthesia

J J Lee et al. Anaesthesia. 1993 Jul.
Free article

Abstract

Anaesthetists require a good knowledge of the excretion of drugs in breast milk and the potential hazards to suckling infants of drug ingestion via breast milk. A brief account of the physiology of lactation is given. The mechanisms of drug passage into breast milk are discussed followed by a review of the excretion in breast milk of drugs used in anaesthetic practice. Suggestions for the management of anaesthesia in breast feeding mothers are offered.

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