A hypothetical question for Drs. Frank Nice and Tom Hale and your compatriots in pharmacology:

How many more years do you estimate will pass before pharmaceutical companies will fully acknowledge the available science in regard to the pharmacokinetics of drugs in human milk?  The cognitive inertia of drug manufacturers who ignorantly and stubbornly insist on using placental transfer as their only frame of reference during pregnancy and all of lactation is irresponsible and dangerous.  

I do not wish to speak for others, but I suspect that many of us in the field possess a chronic weariness of what appears to be willful neglect of this science by the pharmaceutical industry.  It surely isn't benign neglect.  

With gratitude for your work,

Debbie

Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
Program Director
MoreThanReflexes Education
Elkins, West Virginia USA
http://www.MoreThanReflexes.org



  

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