Vitamin B6 is quite popular here to prescribe to women who have hormone
related depressions. Eg, PMS and PPD. The usual recommendation is to use
100-200 mg Vit B6 every  day.

I recenlty heard about two nursing women who use it:

*a women who developed PPD the moment she weaned her child at about 15
mo. She took vit B6, and this helped. I don't know about the doses she
got. She now has a second nursling. Docter prescribed low doses vit b6
shortly after birth, and is slowly increasing the amount of vit B6 every
time the baby is nursing less.
*a woman with severe PMS is prescribed vit B6 2 times 100 mg a day. Her
child is 18 mo.

Tom Hale says in his MMM edition 97:

"Very high doses (600 mg/day) suppress prolactin secretion and therefor
production of breastmilk. Do not use in excess of 25 mg/day. One study
clearly indicaties that pyrodoxine readily transfers into breastmilk and
that B-6 levels in milk correlate closely with maternal intake.
Breastfeeding mothers who are deficient in pyrodoxine should be
supplemented with modest amounts (<25 mg/day)."

This recommendation seems to suppose that pyridoxine is used as a
nutritional supplementation. Not as a medication.

Since these mothers use vit B6 as an effective medication against PMS
and depression, I wonder if this recommendation could be reconsidered.
Any ideas?

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Annelies Bon               http://www.flnet.nl/~0bon01/bfbronnen.html
bf counsellor in training of the Dutch bf org "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"