Hi mamas,
I just took an airborne formula (1 dose) and then nurse my 8 month old. Then I read and it says don't use it if you are breastfeeding the baby. I checked with a family friend who is a pediatrician and she doesn't recommend it. After 4 hours of taking. It, I breastfeeding her again but for less than 5 minutes. I was checking my email and got a response from the family doctor so I stopped immediately.
She recommend me to throw the milk the next day or 2 to allow the medication to leave my body.
Question, I fed the baby twice and I am freaking out now.
The 1st time I assume it's ok, I fed her right after I had the supplement, so i should not have transferred to her that fast. The 2nd time is only for 5 minutes. Anyone had experience taking it and feeding the baby?
It's a vitamin, not medication. The disclaimer is there because they haven't tested it on nursing women. There's no reason to pump and dump, and I frankly doubt the competence of a physician who would recommend that.
You can call the Infant Risk hotline at Texas Tech Health Sciences on Monday- they'll answer questions about any drug or other substance in breast milk. ###-###-####
That is the politically safe answer, to protect her tush.
The vitamins and minerals in Airborne are water soluble, meaning you pee them out and they do not build up.
I travel a lot with my husband and took plenty of nursing babies on trips and used both daytime and nighttime Airborne products and we are all doing fine.
The only caveat is unless you know you have some odd metabolic disorder and do not process vitamins, then for sure don't consume and nurse.
Call a lactation consultant. They'll give you the best answer.
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Don't stress what you did, just forcus on what you can do to keep your baby healthy.
Have a good evening.
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They make Airborne Jr now, so obviously if a child can TAKE Airborne, it should be fine to breastfeed your child if YOU take it. I agree 100% with Meredith C about using Dr. Thomas Hale as a resource through the Texas Tech Infant Risk site.
My opinion as a peer breastfeeding counselor is that the infant formula you would have to use to supplement with would do more harm than the tiny amount of Airborne your daughter will get through breast milk.
I think, no I know you will be fine, it is the doctors responsibility to tell you that to protect themselves not you...if its ok to take percocet and tylenol after delivering a baby and not have anything happen to the baby im sure vitamins should not hurt the baby but if you do see some change in baby it could be because of allergic reaction to something in the airborne, but I seriously doubt it and you would be the first I'd ever heard of that happening to...Good luck mom!
No matter what anyone else's experience is/was, you need to call YOUR baby's pedi and let them know. Every person is different so the effect will be at least slightly different for every baby.
Why would you take ANYTHING that was not absolutely necessary while you're breastfeeding without checking with a doctor first? That just seems like a no-brainer to me!
