Codeine and breastfeeding - Authors' reply

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9639, 2008, Pages 626-

  Madadi, Parvaz ^a   Chitayat, David ^c   Koren, Gideon ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCODAMOL; CODEINE; CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; MORPHINE;

AUTOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; BREAST FEEDING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CYANOSIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG MILK LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; NARANJO PROBABILITY SCALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN APNEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 49649089914     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61267-2     Document Type: Letter

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