Medications and Mothers' Milk"The leading annually updated review of the use of medications in breastfeeding mothers, Medications and Mothers' Milk is the most comprehensive, reliable, easy-to-use, and timely reference available to physicians, nurses, lactation consultants, and other healthcare workers. Used worldwide, it contains the most extensive review of medications and their use in lactating women that is available in the world. New for 2000 ... Almost 50 new drugs; Theoretic Infant Dose is now calculated for you. Using data from the world's literature we have calculated a theoretic dose the infant might receive via milk; A newly created Lactation Risk Category provides users an abbreviated risk index for using the medication in breastfeeding patients; Usual Adult Dose has now been added"--Back cover. |
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