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Modeling drug passage into human milk
Author(s) -
Anderson PO,
Sauberan JB
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt.377
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , drug , medicine , pregnancy , lactation , obstetrics , breast feeding , pediatrics , pharmacology , biology , genetics
Breastfeeding has positive health consequences for both the breastfed infant and the nursing mother. 1,2 Although information on drug use during lactation is available through sites such as LactMed, 3 available information is often incomplete. Unlike pregnancy, in which large numbers of pregnant women need to be studied to assure safety, measurement of drug concentrations in breastmilk in a relatively few subjects can provide valuable information to assess drug safety. This article reviews methods of measuring and predicting drug passage into breastmilk.