For some of you who know me, you have heard me say that when we make medication and breastfeeding decisions, we use 1/2 knowledge, 1/2 experience, and 1/2 common sense.
Scorpion stings and Botox have both come up in my practice starting at least several decades ago.
Scorpion venom is a protein that must be injected into the blood stream to be effective.  Once there, it does not hang around long.  Kinetic studies are done by injecting it into the bloodstream.  It is never given orally.  The protein is destroyed in the gut.  Thus, it could never reach the breastfed infant other than possibly at insignificant levels.
As for Botox, it is approved for injection and only works locally.  The FDA would not approve it if it paralyzed the whole body or other sites.  It is also destroyed orally, and the same is true for the breastfed infant as with scorpion venom.



Frank J. Nice, RPh, DPA, CPHP




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