Hello all, I was asked an interesting question, maybe one of you has an answer. A three week old baby was diagnosed with G6PD defficiency (fairly common here). The variety here in Israel is the one with sensitivity to fava beans (favism). Mom ate fava beans (have no idea why). Can she continue breastfeeding? Pump and dump? How long? What about drugs contraindicated in G6PD def? I didn't have an answer, but because some G6PD defficient poeple can get life threatening hemolysis even from small amounts of wrong substances, and because the baby is so young I recomended pump and dump for 24 hours. So far I haven't heard anything more. (I was contacted by a lactation consultant, not directly by the mother) What would you do? Mira Leibovich, MD, IBCLC (!) Israel