Mother's Drug Use and Weaning: A Case Report

Year 2013, Volume: 14 Issue: 1, 43 - 46, 01.04.2013

Sevgi Özsoy Gökdemirel Gülçin Bozkurt Gülbin Gökçay

Abstract

There are countless of benefits if children be exclusively breastfed during the first six months of life and kept on
breast-feeding with additional nutrients until two years old. The benefits of breastfeeding are not only notable in
the first few years of life but all through it. However, mothers terminate breastfeeding early for various reasons.
Sometimes the reason for this may be mothers' use drug or her misled by health personnel. In fact, there are only a
few drugs which require weaning to be stopped and sometimes it is sufficient to limit breastfeeding or only to
monitor the infant during use of some medicament. In circumstances when breastfeeding is really contraindicated
due to mother's drug use breastfeeding counselling should be given to these mothers about restricting
breastfeeding /weaning and baby nutrition. In this article, a case was discussed where a mother with a heart
disease was asked to stop weaning her baby because she needed to use certain drugs; her dilemma for either
terminating breastfeeding or treatment process, by drawing attention to the breastfeeding approaches of the
physician and the mother with the emphasis on counselling and it should be given by breastfeeding counsellors in
such cases

Keywords

Weaning, drug utilization, breast feeding, counselling

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