Tag: lactation

• Lactation Drug: Cardiac and Psychiatric Adverse Events | Baby News

  

  In Canada, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario warn about domperidone, originally for stomach problems but used off-label to increase breastmilk production. In October of 2019, Joanna McCabe, a nurse, saw a lactation specialist, Dr Newman, with concerns about her breastmilk production and was prescribed 90mg/day, with another doctor increasing it to 120mg/day.…

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  May 5, 2024

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• Ancient Breastfeeding Advice | Baby History Shorts

  

  Before Galen there was Soranus of Ephesus, a second century physician, who influenced western medicine throughout the next two millennia. He worked within a humoral framework: during pregnancy, menstrual blood is transformed into breastmilk in the breasts and transmitted back to the fetus until birth, when lactation begins. Awful Advice In Gynecologie he advised:  That a…

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 18, 2023

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