The vitamin A level in Airborne is enough to make it incompatible 
with breastfeeding.  Hale says adults should never take more than 
5000 IU per day.  Being fat-soluble, it does transfer into 
breastmilk.  A mom taking Airborne 3x a day could theoretically give 
her nursling dangerous amounts of vitamin A.

There is an Airborne Jr. children's version that has 500 IU of 
vitamin A per dose.  That is an option for adults who want to avoid 
the high levels in the regular version.

However, there is another reason that breastfeeding mothers may not 
want to use Airborne: it has not been shown to be effective.  See 
this recent column in the magazine Scientific American 'debunking' 
Airborne:
<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=9389C0F4-E7F2-99DF-3BE657CAD1649375&ref=rdf>

Margaret
Longmont, CO

>I am trying to gather information on the compatibility of Airborne and
>breastfeeding. I can't seem to find any information on this specific product,
>but I am concerned about the high amounts of vitamin A (5000 I.U. in 1 tablet,
>to be taken 3 times per day), not to mention all of the other ingredients I
>know nothing about. Can anyone point me to recent studies or sources? I
>know someone posted on this topic 2 years ago, but I don't think that post
>recieved any public responses.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Samantha Pfeifer
>WIC Breastfeeding Educator

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