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When Mommy's Sick

3 Steps to Easing Your Mind

By Lisa A. Goldstein

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Step Three: Avoid Misinformation
Sometimes even referring to sources can result in confusion. This happened to Judy Musa, a New York resident and professional working, lactating mom with a 10-month-old. She got strep throat and was told by her midwife, pediatrician and pharmacist that nursing was OK with the antibiotics. She developed a subsequent yeast infection from the antibiotics. She was told that it was unclear whether Diflucan – the yeast infection pill – was safe to take when nursing. "I ended up pumping and dumping and only nursing at night to minimize the baby's exposure to the Diflucan," Musa says. "The information that is provided indicates that there will be some secretion into breast milk, so the pharmacist thought it best to avoid nursing for a few days."

The experience of being sick while nursing was frustrating for Musa. When she finally discussed Diflucan with her midwife, the midwife told her that Diflucan is prescribed all the time and doesn't affect nursing babies. In fact, it's pretty much the same drug given to babies with thrush.

When asked about this contradictory information that is all too common, Jacobi wasn't surprised. "Despite breastfeeding initiation rates of somewhere between 60 to 90 percent – depending on a lot of variables – we really live in a bottle-feeding society," she says. "It's no wonder that when a breastfeeding mother needs medical or pharmacological information, she gets contradictory answers, because nobody really knows the answers."


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