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Many mothers need to take medicines during their pregnancy and almost all medicines pass into breast milk in small quantities. Most are generally considered safe for a mother to take but some medicines that must be avoided include lithium, cytotoxic agents, retinoids and radio-pharmaceuticals. Search or browse the list below for guidelines on taking individual medicines while breastfeeding.

Please Note: Always consult your doctor or healthcare specialist for medical advice in relation to drug use while pregnant or breastfeeding.

Medicine use during Breastfeeding A-Z Index

A

A + D Cracked Skin Relief → Acne Control Cleanser ACNE MEDICATION 10 → Advil Film-Coated Advil Infant's Concentrated Drops → Alamag Plus Alamast → Alka-Seltzer Plus Mucus & Congestion Alka-Seltzer Plus Multi-Symptom Cold & Flu (Day Formula) → Allfen Allfen A → Ambifed CD Ambifed CDX → Ancef Andec → Aquabid DM Aquachloral Supprettes → Atacand HCT Atamet → Azasan Azasite → Azurette

B

B & O Supprettes → Bedol Beechams All-in-One → Bepotastine Bepreve → Bismatrol Bismatrol Maximum Strength → Brometane DX Bromfed → Bunavail Bupap → Byvalson

C

C Phen → Carb Pseudo-Tan Carba-XP → Cefoperazone Cefotan → Chemworld Colourfree Childrens Paracetamol Junior 1-5 Years Chemworld Paracetamol → Cholestyramine Resin Choline Magnesium Salicylate → Clobevate Clobex → Coldonyl Coldtuss-DR → Contac Severe Cold and Flu Maximum Stength Contac Severe Cold and Flu Non Drowsy → Cotab A Cotab AX → Cyotic Cypex-LA → Cytuss-HC NR

D

D-Amine-SR → Dec-Chlorphen Dec-Chlorphen DM → Denti-Care Denti-Freeze Denti-Rinse → DesOwen Lotion 2 oz Kit DesOwen Ointment Kit → Diastat AcuDial Diastat Pediatric → Dioctosoftez Dioctyn → Dolko Enfants Dolmar → Drixoral Cough / Sore Throat Drixoral Decongestant Non-Drowsy → Duraphen Forte Duraphen II → Dytuss

E

E S P → ElixSure Cough Elixsure Decongestant → Entex LQ Entex Pac → Esmolol Esobar → Exaprin Excedrin → Ezol

F

Factive → Fioricet with Codeine Fiorinal → Flupenthixol Fluphenazine → Fyavolv

G

G Bid → Genasoft Genasoft Plus → Glydo Glynase → Guiaplex HC Guiat Clear DM → Gynogen LA 20

H

H 9600 SR → Hiberix Hibiclens → Hy-Phen Hybrid CF → Hypaque Sodium Hypaque-76 → Hyzine

I

I 123-Labeled Human Serum Albumin → Interferon Beta Interferon Gamma-1b → Isovue-250 Isovue-300 → Izba

J

J-Cof DHC → Juvisync

K

K-Pek → Kovanaze Kronofed-A → Kyleena

L

L Thyroxine Roche → Lepirudin Leribane → Linotar Gel 3 Lioresal → Loestrin 21 1 / 20 Loestrin 24 Fe → Lumitene Lumizyme → Lyza

M

M O S → Marine Oils Marinol → Medidex Medidex LA → Metformin Methacort 40 → Mifeprex Mifepristone → Mollifene Momentum → Mucinex Sinus-Max Full Force Mucinex Sinus-Max Moisture Smart → Myphetane DC Myphetane DX → MZM

N

Nabumetone → Natures Remedy Naturetin → Neutrahist PDX Drops Neutrogena Clear Pore Cleanser / Mask → Nohist Plus Jr NoHist-A → NovoLog FlexPen NovoLog Mix 50 / 50 → Nytol QuickCaps

O

Obagi → OptiFlex Complete OptiFlex-C → Oti-Sone Otic Care → Ozurdex

P

P Chlor DM → Papaya Paracare → Pediahist DM Drops Pediahist DM Syrup → Peroderm 7 Wash Peroxin A → Phenytoin Sodium, Extended Release Phenytoin Sodium, Prompt → Poly-Histine CS Poly-Histine-D → Prevacid NapraPAC 500 Prevacid OTC → Prolex D Prolex DH → Pseudocot-G Pseudocot-T → Pyrroxate

Q

Q Flex → Qvar

R

R & C → Relasin-HCX Relcof C → Retin A Micro Retin-A → Robafen DM Max Robafen PE → Roxilox Roxiprin → Ryzolt

S

S-Caine Peel → Senna Senna Concentrate → Simponi Aria Simuc → SoluCLENZ Rx Solurex → Stelazine Sterapred → Sulpiride Sulster → Systen

T

T- Koff → Technetium Tc 99m Red Blood Cells Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi → Theo-24 Theo-Dur → Timoptic Ocudose Timoptic-XE → Tramahexal SR Tramal → Triaminic Thin Strips Cough & Runny Nose Triaminic Thin Strips Day Time Cold & Cough → Trituss-A TriTuss-A Drops → Tussin CF Tussin Cough → Typhim Vi Typhoid Vaccine → Tyzeka

U

U-Cort → Url-Tannate Pediatric Uro Blue → Uva Ursi

V

V-COF → Vectical Velaglucerase alfa → Vimovo Vincasar PFS → Vyvanse

W

Wakespan → Wytensin

X

X-Hist → Xyzal Allergy 24HR

Y

Y-Cof DM → Yuvafem

Z

Z-Clinz 10 → Zincfrin Zingiber → ZzzQuil

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