Sensitivity of the young infant to drug exposure through human milk.
In spite of significant exposure to drugs and chemicals through breast milk, there are very few reports of documented adverse effects on the infant. It is perhaps appropriate to consider that the presence of drugs and chemicals in milk may have a positive effect on developmental processes of the young infant. New experimental techniques coupled with increasing sensitive assays for chemical moieties present opportunities for measuring the effect of such chemicals on development processes in the neonate and young infant.
Berlin
Cheston M
CM
Department of Pediatrics H085, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PO Box 850, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033-0850, USA. cmb6@psu.edu
D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000009:adverse effects; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000378:metabolism*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000378:metabolism
D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations