When a cocaine-using mother wishes to breastfeed: Proposed guidelines

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-2

  Sarkar, Moumita ^b   Djulus, Josephine ^b   Koren, Gideon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOYLECGONINE; COCAINE;

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DIARRHEA; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; TACHYCARDIA; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

BREAST FEEDING; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MILK, HUMAN; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 13244271255     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007691-200502000-00001     Document Type: Short Survey

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