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Medications and Mothers' Milk

Thomas W. Hale, Ph.D.

From the back cover: Now in its eleventh edition, Medications and Mothers' Milk is a worldwide best-selling reference for evaluating medication use in breastfeeding mothers. Since its original publication in 1992, Medications and Mothers' Milk has quickly become the most comprehensive source throughout the world for professionals and for mothers seeking the best pharmacological advice in breastfeeding. With each consecutive edition, Medications and Mothers' Milk has gained momentum and this volume is no different. This all-inclusive reference contains page after page of the most current information availablo in this field including new studies and additional drug entries.

Written by renowned Clinical Pharmacologist, Dr. Thomas W. Hale, Medications and Mothers' Milk provides the reader with easy to understand explanations of how drugs enter milk, their problems if any, and the relative safety of their use in breastfeeding mothers.

This reference book contains all the current science known about this field and provides the reader with exact data on the degree of transfer of medications into human milk., the effect on mother and infant, and the relative risks to the infant. Medications and Mothers' Milk is the pinnacle of achievement in its field and the only source healthcare clinicians and mothers alike need use as their personal advisor for the concerns of their patients and children.

New features in the Eleventh Edition:
More than 80 new drugs have been added.
Numerous recent drug studies have been added to the monographs.
A new appendix with tables on cold remedies, radioactive agents, etc.
The relative Infant Dose is now calculated and provided for numerous drugs.

Pharmasoft Publishing, ISBN: 096362198X, © 1992-2004, There may be a more recent edition available

 

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