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"Elisheva S. Urbas" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:56:25 EST
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In a message dated 99-01-21 21:27:52 EST, Andrew wrote:

<< Clinical experience suggests that many of the drugs used to treat asthma
can
 be used safely during pregnancy and lactation (Report of the Working Group on
 Asthma and Pregnancy, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1993,
 http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhlbi/edumat/pub_prof.htm,  NIH publication
#93-3279;
 M Schatz et al, J Allergy Clin Immunol, 100:301, 1997).  Taking theophylline
 during lactation may produce toxic effects in the newborn....... >>

Hello Andrew -- I got confused.    Does this article say both that "many of
the drugs...can be safely used" but that in particular "taking
theophylline...may produce toxic effects" -- eg, that for asthma in the mom
theophylline is not the drug of choice?    Or is the first their quote and the
second your comment?

In either case, would you mind for those of us who are academic-journal-
impaired telling how much theophylline is maybe how bad for babies?  I've
never yet heard anybody warn about drinking tea during lactation, so I'm
assuming you have to get to seriously therapeutic doses before this question
kicks in?

Thanks for filling in details -- best, Elisheva Urbas (struggling to keep up
with the clinicians)


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