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I have had a couple of mothers nurse on mercaptopurine without apparent
problems to the baby. This is not proof, but it may be somewhat reassuring.
The fact that a drug that is safe during pregnancy is necessarily safe
during breastfeeding is not actually true, not as a general rule, since the
mother will metabolize the drug for the fetus. But with a drug like
mercaptopurine, I believe this is true. However, is mercaptopurine safe
during pregnancy?
Hale says there is no data available on excretion into milk. Wouldn't this
be a nice little paper, to do levels on the milk?
I lean to saying yes to breastfeeding, doing milk levels and watching the
baby closely.
Jack Newman MD, FRCPC
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