When and how to use mood stabilizers during breastfeeding

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 113-117

  Chaudron, Linda H ^a  

^a WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; LITHIUM; VALPROIC ACID;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MILK LEVEL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; JAUNDICE; LIVER TOXICITY; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0034611965     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(00)00031-7     Document Type: Article

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