HELP!  PAGE
RESOURCES AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Common Problems

The Task Force recommends  the La Leche League website  to both mothers and health care professionals for accurate and timely answers to common breastfeeding problems.  Dr. Jack Newman from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has excellent handout material on his website
Drugs and Breastfeeding

The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals into Human Milk
is the September 2001 Policy Statement of the American Acadamy of Pediatrics.  Click here if you have questions about the effect of maternal drug ingestion, legal or illegal, on breastfeeding
Motherhood
Christof Wetzel


For information call 1-505-821-2511
New Mexico WIC Strategic Plan for Breastfeeding Promotion
Click here to read the plan authored by Sharon Giles-Pullen, WIC Breastfeeding Promotion Manager
LactMed, a free online database with information on drugs and lactation, is one of the newest additions to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) TOXNET system, a Web-based collection of resources covering toxicology, chemical safety, and environmental health.
Geared to the healthcare practitioner and nursing mother, LactMed contains over 450 drug records.  It includes information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, the American Academy of Pediatrics category indicating the level of compatibility of the drug with breastfeeding, and alternate drugs to consider.  References are included, as is nomenclature information, such as the drug's Chemical Abstract Service's (CAS) Registry number and its broad drug class.

LactMed was developed by a pharmacist who is an expert in this subject area. Three other recognized authorities  serve as the database's scientific review panel.  Ancillary resources, such as a glossary of terms related to drugs and lactation, and breastfeeding links are  also offered.  LactMed can be searched together with TOXNET's other databases in a multi-database environment, to obtain other relevant information about drugs.  As a work in progress, LactMed will continue to expand with additional drugs and be enhanced with other substances, such as industrial chemicals and radiation.
 
The New Mexico Breastfeeding
Task Force
Established 1988