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Dear Dr. Umlauf,

The risk of metabolic acidosis in the baby is virtually zero with that
dose.  There has been one case that I know of where metabolic acidosis
has been described in the baby of a nursing mother who was taking, I
believe, 2.4 grams of aspirin a day.  Furthermore, if I remember the
report, the baby was much younger than 6 months.  The amount in the
milk after a 325 mg dose with a reported M/P for aspirin of 0.03-0.08
is likely to be negligible.

I also think the issue of Reye's syndrome is overstated.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC