Dear LACTNET  readers,

In south Louisiana there is a nursing mother who has a bad case of
kidney stones (they look like mardi gras beads on the xray).  Her baby
is only 1 month old.  After the surgery next week, she is to start a
medication called Urocit-K (potassium citrate).  She will take 80 mg
TID.  There is no mention of it in Tom Hale's MEDICATIONS AND MOTHER'S
MILK, 2000.  On a pharmaceutical site,
http://www.missionpharmacal.com/urocitk/prescribing_info.htm
it says that pediatric safety has not been determined.

Is there any information about use of this medication in a breastfeeding
mother?

Marcella Snow, BSN, RN, IBCLC
Ruston, Louisiana

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