Haloperidol Pregnancy and Breast Feeding Warnings

Haloperidol is also known as: Haldol, Haldol Decanoate

Overview

If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using Haloperidol while you are pregnant. Haloperidol is found in breast milk. Do not breast-feed while taking Haloperidol .

Haloperidol Pregnancy Warnings

Haloperidol has not been formally assigned to a pregnancy category by the FDA. Several cases of limb reduction malformations occurring in infants whose mothers took haloperidol during the first trimester have been reported. Other workers have not found an association with limb reductions. Haloperidol has been used in the second and third trimesters for control of chorea gravidarum and psychiatric disorders. There are no controlled data in human pregnancy. Haloperidol should only be given during pregnancy when benefit outweighs the risk.

Haloperidol Lactation Warnings

Haloperidol is excreted into human milk. The American Academy of Pediatrics describes haloperidol as a drug "whose effect on nursing infants in unknown but may be of concern".

One study has reported that levels of haloperidol excreted into human breast milk were 5 ng/mL after an average maternal dose of 30 mg/day.

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