Title	Drugs and human lactation [electronic resource] : a comprehensive guide to the content and consequences of drugs, micronutrients, radiopharmaceuticals, and environmental and occupational chemicals in human milk / editor, Peter N. Bennett ; co-authors, Allan Astrup-Jensen ... [et al.]
Imprint	Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1996
Edition	2nd ed
Connect to	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444819819
Descript	ix, 712 p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Now in its second edition, <IT>Drugs and Human Lactation</IT> is a comprehensive guide to the content and consequences of xenobiotics and micronutrients in human milk, and remains by far the most thorough and extensive work available on this subject. The excellent methodology used for the compilation of the 1st edition has been retained.<P>It begins with an outline of the processes by which substances enter milk during its formation, the effects of drugs on the milk production process, the main determinants of drug excretion into milk and their disposition in the child. There follows an analysis of current data on 234 individual drugs, describing the extent of their passage into human milk, and assessing the risk to the suckling infant. Vitamins and essential trace elements, and radiopharmaceuticals are similarly reviewed. Also included is an account of the factors that influence the passage of environmental and occupational chemicals into milk. The result is a complete overview of what is known and proven, with clear pointers to matters which require further study, and brings the various subject areas up to date. Risks, uncertainties and false alarms which exist have been defined in such a way that they can be avoided.<P>Once again, <IT>Drugs and Human Lactation</IT> provides a comprehensive guide to the content and consequences of substances in milk. The volume will provide a rational basis for making therapeutic decisions in women who seek to breast-feed.<P><IT>Reproductive Immunology</IT> on the first edition: <IT>...a superbly written compendium of reliable information and sensible conclusions and recommendations.</IT>

1. Breastfeeding -- Health aspects
2. Breast milk -- Contamination
3. Newborn infants -- Effect of drugs on
4. Lactation -- drug effects
5. Milk
6. Human -- drug effects
7. Geneesmiddelen.
8. Borstvoeding.
9. Allaitement maternel -- Aspect sanitaire
10. Lait de femme -- Contamination -- Aspect physiologique
11. Nouveau-nโes
12. Effets des mโedicaments sur les
13. Mโedicaments -- Aspect physiologique
14. Allaitement maternel -- Aspect physiologique
15. Lait de femme -- Aspect physiologique
16. Electronic books.