Medicines and Breastfeeding

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Title: Medicines and Breastfeeding (Links to English resource)

Summary: This fact sheet intends to provide general advice to mothers who are breastfeeding and taking medication and discusses the potential risks in passing harmful drugs onto a baby through your breast milk.

Organisation: Royal Women's Hospital - Well Women's Services

Publishing date: May 2002

Last reviewed: July 2009

Target audience: Women

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