Mother takes cough medicine, poisoning child through breast milk

At the National Hospital of Pediatrics, there was a case of a mother taking cough medicine and a child with opiate poisoning (included in the cough medicine component) when breastfeeding. Mothers with small children need to be careful when taking medications.

Mother takes medicine, she gets poisoned from breast milk

At the Children's Hospital Clinic, a young woman carries her baby for examination. She said her 8-month-old daughter often struggled, fussed, had a mild fever and stopped breastfeeding. She used to take her to the hospital but did not find the cause.

Until the baby became thin, almost without sleep at night, she took her to Hanoi. Now, she really regrets because she herself is the cause of her condition.

Number is because of continuous coughing, she often took a cough medicine with codeine. Her baby is breastfed with an opioid poison, an ingredient in medicine that she still takes to cure cough.

Children who still suckle and take medicine must be careful

Doctor Nguyen Tien Dung (Bach Mai Hospital) said: The situation of opioid poisoning can occur in children who are breast-feeding because the mother takes drugs such as syrup or cough code with codeine, propoxyp

While still in the nursing period, the mother should be cautious when taking medicine (Photo: tmc.edu)

hene .; Imodium-containing drugs, Loperamide (Lomotil), Elexir paregorir .

Symptoms of poisoning usually appear after 30 minutes if using injections, after 1-2 hours if the drug is taken. If it is cumulative poisoning as is the case with children of H., children will often find it difficult to stay, have trouble sleeping, and become weak.

In the stimulating period, children are nauseous, struggling, crying, mild fever, breast-feeding, and fast breathing. Neurosuppression stage, lethargy, lethargy or drowsiness, dysrhythmias, hypothermia. In respiratory depression, children stop breathing, cyanosis, cold limbs, vasculature and can die.

Children will gradually wake up and stop breathing disorders if treated with anti-morphine drugs. Therefore, if promptly taken to medical facilities for emergency treatment by gastric lavage, oxygen, fluid infusion, anti-morphine . the child will recover gradually.

Mothers during lactation need to be careful when using drugs, because some substances in the drug may appear in breast milk sources, causing danger to children.