Breastfeeding travelers: Precautions and recommendations

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-47

  Chen, Lin H ^a,b   Zeind, Caroline ^c   MacKell, Sheila ^d   Lapointe, Trisha ^c   Mutsch, Margot ^e   Wilson, Mary E ^a,b,f  

^a MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d Mountain View Pediatrics   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BCG VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHOLERA VACCINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; MENCEVAX; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; MICONAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PEFLOXACIN; RABIES VACCINE; RIFAXIMIN; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; BREAST MILK; CHICKENPOX; COLOSTRUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SAFETY; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MILK, HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TRAVEL; VACCINES;

EID: 74049159497     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2009.00362.x     Document Type: Review

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