Key references for Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding


Below is a list of general references on which some of the statements and recommendations in the Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding are based. This list is not comprehensive.

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Transfer of drugs and other chemicals into human milk. Pediatrics 2001;108(3):776-89.

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Abel EL. Maternal alcohol consumption and spontaneous abortion. Alcohol 1997;32(3):211-9.

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Briggs GC, Freeman RK,Yaffe SJ. Drugs in pregnancy and lactation: a reference guide to fetal and neonatal risk. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2005.

 

Brown MG, EDM Gatt, ST Leslie, G Robinson, J. Management of hypertension in pregnancy: executive summary. Australasian Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy. Med J Aust 1993;158(10):700-2.

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Chan A, Hanna M, Abbott M, Keane RJ. Oral retinoids and pregnancy. Med J Aust 1996;165(3):164-7.

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Chen C, Jensen BK, Mistry G, Wyss R, Zultak M, Patel IH, et al. Negligible systemic absorption of topical isotretinoin cream: implications for teratogenicity. J Clin Pharmacol 1997;37(4):279-84.

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Czeizel AE, Rockenbauer M, Olsen J, Sorensen HT. A teratological study of aminoglycoside antibiotic treatment during pregnancy. Scand J Infect Dis 2000;32(3):309-13.

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Dillon AE, Wagner CL, Wiest D, Newman RB. Drug therapy in the nursing mother. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 1997;24(3):675-96.  

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Ernst CL, Goldberg JF. The reproductive safety profile of mood stabilizers, atypical antipsychotics, and broad-spectrum psychotropics. J Clin Psychiatry 2002;63 Suppl 4:42-55.

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Gulmezoglu AM. Interventions for trichomoniasis in pregnancy (Cochrane Review). Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2002(3):CD000220.

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Hale TW. Medications and mothers' milk. 10 ed. Amarillo, Texas: Pharmasoft Publishing; 2002.

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Ilett KF, Kristensen JH, Wojnar-Horton RE, Begg EJ. Drug distribution in human milk. Aust Prescr 1997;20(2):35-40.

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Ilett KF, Kristensen JH. Drug use and breastfeeding. Expert Opin Drug Saf 2005;4(4):745-68.

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Jewell D, Young G. Interventions for nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003(4):CD000145.

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Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society. Chemotherapy and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom: recommendations 1998. Thorax 1998;53(7):536-48.

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Kallen BA, Otterblad Olausson P, Danielsson BR. Is erythromycin therapy teratogenic in humans? Reprod Toxicol 2005;20(2):209-14.

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Koren G, Pastuszak A, Ito S. Drugs in pregnancy. N Engl J Med 1998;338(16):1128-37.

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Koren G. Drinking alcohol while breastfeeding. Will it harm my baby? Can Fam Physician 2002;48:39-41.

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Kristensen J, Ilet K. Breastfeeding and drugs. Australian Pharmacist 1999;18(2):100-7.

 

Lambers DS, Clark KE. The maternal and fetal physiologic effects of nicotine. Semin Perinatol 1996;20(2):115-26.

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Liston J. Breastfeeding and the use of recreational drugs--alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and marijuana. Breastfeed Rev 1998;6(2):27-30.

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Little RE, Anderson KW, Ervin CH, Worthington-Roberts B, Clarren SK. Maternal alcohol use during breast-feeding and infant mental and motor development at one year. N Engl J Med 1989;321(7):425-30.

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Magpie Trial Collaboration Group, Altman D, Carroli G, Duley L, Farrell B, Moodley J, et al. Do women with pre-eclampsia, and their babies, benefit from magnesium sulphate? The Magpie Trial: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2002;359(9321):1877-90.

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Mandel S, Cooper D. The use of antithyroid drugs in pregnancy and lactation. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2001;86(6):2354-9.

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Medicines in Pregnancy Working Party of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee. Prescribing medicines in pregnancy. An Australian categorisation of risk of drug use in pregnancy. 4th ed. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Commonwealth of Australia; 1999.

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Nosten F, ter Kuile F, Maelankiri L, Chongsuphajaisiddhi T, Nopdonrattakoon L, Tangkitchot S, et al. Mefloquine prophylaxis prevents malaria during pregnancy: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. J Infect Dis 1994;169(3):595-603.

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Ohman I, Vitols S, Tomson T. Lamotrigine in pregnancy: pharmacokinetics during delivery, in the neonate, and during lactation. Epilepsia 2000;41(6):709-13.

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Pham P, Barditch-Crovo P. A guide to the clinical care of women with HIV, XIV:Pharmacologic considerations in HIV-infected pregnant patients. In: U.S Department of Health and Human Services HAB, editor. 2005.

 

Pharmacy Department Royal Women's Hospital. Drugs and pregnancy. Melbourne: Royal Women's Hospital; 2001.

 

Pharmacy Department Royal Women's Hospital. Drugs and breastfeeding. Melbourne: Royal Women's Hospital; 2004.

 

Regev RH, Litmanowitz I, Arnon S, Shiff J, Dolfin T. Gentamicin serum concentrations in neonates born to gentamicin-treated mothers. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2000;19(9):890-1.

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Simmons D, Walters BN, Rowan JA, McIntyre HD. Metformin therapy and diabetes in pregnancy. Med J Aust 2004;180(9):462-4.

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Smaill F, Hofmeyr GJ. Antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean section. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2002(3):CD000933.

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Tomson T, Ohman I, Vitols S. Lamotrigine in pregnancy and lactation: a case report. Epilepsia 1997;38(9):1039-41.

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WHO and UNICEF. Breastfeeding and maternal medication: Recommendations for drugs in the eleventh WHO model list of essential drugs. Geneva: World Health Organisation, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (Geneva); UNICEF (New York); 2003.

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