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Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:14:03 EST
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Cyndi,
You wrote:  the "combination" of drugs she is on.  Only one on  the list is
unfamiliar to me:  Dilaudid (sp?), keflex, mepergan, atavan, and ibuprofen. '

This is strange.   Dilaudid is a narcotic analgesic - "a hydrogenated ketone
of morphine"  but merpergan is a combination of demerol, a narcotic analgesic
with actions similar to morphine and promethazine HCl - phenergan - which Tom
Hale says is for nausea & motion sickness and sedation.  And the PDR says an
antihistaminic.   Ativan [lorazepam from the valium family - Hale] is also a
sedative.

Why is she on TWO narcotics??!!  And a sedative?  Demerol is the drug that
half the babies in the self-attachment video are exposed to.  It interferes
with a baby's state - a newborn may not become fully alert after exposure to
it.  I have a paper from the early 90s which says that if a mother has been
given demerol during a c-section and afterward for pain control, the baby has
a double whammy, first from before it is born and then from the amount in the
breastmilk.

The merpergan and the ativan can cause sedation in the infant as well as
respiratory depression, & merpergan, agitation.

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