Good morning, people. I worked with a woman who scalded her right breast and got a 2nd-degree burn about the size of a quarter below her nipple on the areola. She's nursing a 3-1/2 month old. The ER MD prescribed bacitracin ointment to the site twice a day, and gave her gauze to cover the site. I talked with her about creative positioning, attempting to feed with gauze in place, and if intolerable, she may need to manually express or pump until the site is healed (about 1 week, hopefully). The mother also said she would wash the site prior to nursing without the gauze. I had looked in Hale and couldn't find bacitracin. I checked the archives and the posts there said not to breastfeed if the mother was taking bacitracin systemically due to the risk of nephrotoxicity in the infant. What about the infant coming into a small amount of topical bacitracin while breastfeeding? Is this a problem? Thanks for your help on this. Wanda Mertick, RN, MN, IBCLC Port Matilda, PA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html