The Essential Reference for Professionals Working with Breastfeeding Mothers - Now Published by Springer Publishing Company

Medications & Mothers' Milk is the worldwide-bestselling drug reference on the use of medications in breastfeeding mothers, providing you with the most current, complete, and evidence-based information.

Extensively updated throughout, the 17th Edition includes hundreds of new drugs, diseases, vaccines, and syndromes. The appendices provide information on radioactive drugs and tests, and over-the-counter drugs.

Written by world-renowned Clinical Pharmacologist, Dr. Thomas Hale, and assisted by Dr. Hilary Rowe, this drug reference provides everything that is known about the transfer of various medications into human milk, the use of radiopharmaceuticals, the use of chemotherapeutic agents, and vaccines in breastfeeding mothers.

Features:

Updated throughout with new data on 1,115 drugs, syndromes, vaccines, and herbals.

Contains new tables to compare the suitability of psychiatric medications and pain medication.

Includes many new radiocontrast agents and other diagnostic procedures.