Hi Libby!

You can find the info you need about Glaucoma in :CLinical therapy in
breastfeeding patients, from our dear Thomas Hale.

He writes that 'several studies of timolol have shown no effect on nursing
infants. Betaxolol may be a second choice following one report of side
effects in a nursing infant'.

suggested reading: Dreyer EB, et al New perspectives on glaucoma. JAMA 1999
Jan 27;281(4):306-8

ALward WL. Medical management of glaucoma. N Engl. J. Med. 1998 Oct 29;
339(18):1298-307. Review.

Podolsky MM. Exposing glaucoma. Primary care physicians are instrumental in
early detection. Postgrad Med. 1998 May; 103(5):131-6, 142-3, 147-8. Review.

You can find Thomas' homepage at: http://neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact/
In the forums you can also find some information about medications and
glaucoma.

Hope this helps a little.

Renate Rietveld, IBCLC
Rijswijk, The Netherlands

At 14:27 27-4-00 -0600, you wrote:
>Lactnetters:
>
>Please help me with a mom who has just been diagnosed with glaucoma.  I
>can't find my copy of Hale, and couldn't find Glaucoma in the LLL Answer
>book, Lawrence or Biancuzzo.  Her opthamologist told her to wean the baby
>pretty much right away.  He told her she could have a couple of weeks. Baby
>is 5m/o and totally breastfed. The mother is very reluctant to do it, and
>since I don't know anything about glaucoma nor its treatment, I am very
>reluctant to tell her anything. The only advise I could give her was to get
>me the names of the meds and we could look them up.  I also told her it
>might be a good idea to begin pumping and storing so that she could give
>him BM for as long as possible.
>
>Any body know anything about the TX for Glaucoma and breastfeeding?
>
>Libby Berkeley, MPH, CHES, (working towards IBCLC)
>in El Paso
>
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