Workshop 2: Adverse Drug Reactions

Cetirizine and loratadine are the preferred antihistamines for a breast feeding mother (7).There is no published data on the excretion of cetirizine into breast milk. In an unpublished study with single 20mg doses of cetirizine (twice normal dose) only low levels of cetirizine were found in breast milk (8). Sedation in the nursing infant has been suggested as a possibility (9), but this has ... ................
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