Hi im breastfeeding mum,im underweight my baby is 11 months i heard this tablet can gain weight for 5 to 7 pounds a week.sometimes i feel ashame of myself.everytime i go out everyone staring at me saying im too skinny.so i tried a lot but none works so i wanted to try this,question is do i need to ask my gp if i can take this tablets while breastfeeding?thanks for you're response really appriatte it x.
Is it safe to take cyproheptadine apetamin tablets?
Question posted by Lyn29 on 15 Oct 2015
Last updated on 29 October 2018
Answers
Stephen Treloar
16 Oct 2015
Firstly NO. In GIANT letters:
"Do NOT use cyproheptadine if:
you are allergic to any ingredient in cyproheptadine
you are breast-feeding"
Sourced from here: https://www.drugs.com/mtm/cyproheptadine.html
applesB123
29 Oct 2018
As with anything consult your doctor first. Stephen is not even a doctor. Do your own research.
Stephen Treloar
29 Oct 2018
That's a bit random having a go at me three years after the fact. I did not pretend to be a doctor and drugs.com explicitly states that the information provided here is not to be used a substitute for medical advice. I simply quoted an FDA approved piece of product information where the original poster just didn't know how to do basic research or was too lazy to look up. I simply bothered.
If you can demonstrate, even remotely, how that advice was wrong then I'm all ears. Until then you can shut up.
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- Side effects of Cyproheptadine (detailed)
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