Is breast-feeding of infants advisable for epileptic mothers taking antiepileptic drugs?

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 460-468

  Chen, Lei ^a,b   Liu, Fang ^a,c   Yoshida, Shuichi ^a   Kaneko, Sunao ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

antiepileptic drugs; breast feeding; infant; pregnancy; women with epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ANEMIA; APNEA; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYANOSIS; DROWSINESS; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPILEPSY; EXCESSIVE PERIODIC BREATHING; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; JAUNDICE; LETHARGY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MATERNAL SERUM; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MOTHER; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEONATAL WEIGHT LOSS; NERVOUSNESS; PETECHIA; POOR FEEDING; POOR SUCKLING; RARE HYPOCALCEMIC SEIZURE; REVERSIBLE HYPOTONIA; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; TREMOR; UNMOTIVATED CRYING; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77957365836     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02126.x     Document Type: Review

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