Hello,
Pat Young has given you all the pharmacinetic elements; I just wanted to
share:
some mothers breastfeeds under bromocriptine, for they suffer
hyperprolactinemia. and they breastfeed successfully; (that is for
bromocriptine and infant fed to breastmilk)
Bromocriptine is really often used in France, and whislt I was training at
the maternity of Thiers-Auvergne, I saw mothers who were really sick, with
vertigos and bad mood and it is supposed to be due to bromocriptine. the
doctor used to stop the drug for another: so in France we sometimes use
"vasobral", Dihydroergocriptine+
Coffeine, used normally for cases of brain-injured persons, memory troubles,
behavioring troubles...
... and a few start using "nothing" or homeopathy sometimes, because of all
side-effects;
What I could share is my own use of bromocriptine as my twins were a little
more than 1 month; I took the drug whilst crying, shared between suffering
really a lot because of carpal tunnel syndrome and still wanting to
breastfeed; I had been told: wean and take the drug against the syndrom or
breastfeed and continue suffering.
Then I finally stopped the drug after a few days and relactated; during this
treatment I was really sick, bad mood, not far from thinking to deadly
things (hard to explain, I felt really bad that is all that I know); my
breast were like big nuclear shells too;
So .. as bromocriptine can be used by some women with hyperprolactinemia,
"your" Mom would be able to breastfeed to get more confortable, or use
manual extraction to get more confortable maybe.... concerning putting the
baby again to breast, I wonder how she could feel it, and also how the baby
could feel it; extraction could be another pathway.
Amicalement,
Françoise Coudray
Lactation Consultante IBCLC
President of ADJ+
(some kind of Breastfeedint Twins and Plus)
http://www.allaitement-jumeaux.com/
http://www.allaitement-jumeaux.com/expo2001/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Putsey" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: Bromocriptine, then continued breastfeeding
Hi
I am new to this list, I am a BfN Registered Breastfeeding Supporter with
The
Breastfeeding Network (a UK charity).
My question is about Bromocriptine. A mum with a 8 month old has been given
this to stop her milk supply. I know that it is not used in US and Canada
and
it is rarely used in UK because of risk to the mum.
She is incredibly engorged and one way to elleviate this is breastfeed (she
is
finding expressing difficult), but I am not sure if that is Ok for the baby.
I
have looked at archives and think that transfer to breatmilk is low.
She has taken 2 doses of 2.5mg, one yesterday and one today at 8am (it's
now 11.30am).
Thoughts?
Thanks
Jane Putsey
BfN Registered Breastfeeding Supporter
The Breastfeeding Network
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