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Choosing between oral vancomycin options
18 May 2021
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Local decision makers should choose between the options for giving vancomycin orally. Licensing status and other factors affect decision making.
Sotrovimab
Casirivimab + imdevimab
Safety in Lactation: Penicillins
5 November 2020
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Monitor infant for gastro-intestinal disturbances and oral candida infection, especially if used for prolonged periods or in high doses, although these effects are unlikely to…
Safety in Lactation: Some other antibacterials
4 November 2020
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Monitor infant for gastro-intestinal disturbances and oral candida infection, especially if used for prolonged periods or in high doses, although these effects are unlikely to…
Safety in Lactation: Anti-infective eye preparations
30 October 2020
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Anti-infective preparations for ophthalmic use have limited systemic absorption in the mother, and pose negligible risk to a breastfed infant. Systemic absorption from eye drops…
Safety in Lactation: Macrolides
21 October 2020
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Epidemiologic evidence indicates that the risk of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in infants might be increased by use of maternal macrolides, especially in infants exposed in…
Safety in Lactation: Quinolones
21 October 2020
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Quinolones are generally accepted for use during breastfeeding, with caution. There have been concerns about adverse effects on infants’ developing joints, although this has only…
Metronidazole – is it safe to use with breastfeeding?
12 October 2020
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The balance of current evidence and clinical experience, and the consensus of specialist opinion, is that there is no established mutagenic or carcinogenic risk to…
Safety in Lactation: Tetracyclines
25 September 2020
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If other antibiotics are not appropriate, tetracycline is the preferred drug from this group. Short term use (less than 3 weeks duration) is acceptable for…
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