FDA Warns Breast-Feeding Women Taking Codeine About Possible Overdose Risk For Infants

August 22nd, 2007 | Category: Womens Health

FDA on Friday issued an heads up that warns women who are breast-feeding and taking codeine about a possible risk of overdose for their infants, the Wall Street Journal reports (Corbett Dooren/Wilde Mathews, Wall Street Journal, 8/18).

Codeine frequently is prescribed to women after giving birth for pain associated with episiotomies or caesarean sections, the [click link for full article]

Original post by Women’s Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today

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