Now Available! Medications and Mothers' Milk 2008 is a comprehensive reference on the impact of currently used medications on breastfeeding mothers and infants. Written by renowned clinical pharmacologist, Dr. Thomas W. Hale, this thousand plus page book is packed with information on more than 1000 drugs, vitamins, herbs, and vaccines. It includes tables on radioisotopes, radiocontrast agents, and common cold remedies.
Some of the new features added to Medications and Mothers' Milk 2008 , thirteenth edition include:
- More than 100 new drugs.
- Rigorous updates to hundreds of drugs and tables.
- Updated tables on radiocontrast agents.
- Updated tables on cold and cough remedies.
Each drug entry includes the drug name and generic name; common trade names used in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom; uses of the drug; AAP recommendations on the drug; a drug monograph that describes what is currently known about the drug, its ability to enter milk, the concentration in milk at set time intervals, and other parameters that are important to a clinical consultant; pregnancy risk category; lactation risk category; theoretic infant dose; relative infant dose; adult concerns; pediatric concerns; drug interactions; alternative drugs that may be suitable choices; adult dosage; and a table that includes (when known) adult half life (T ½ ) of the medication, pediatric half life (PHL) of the medication, milk/plasma ratio (M/P), the time interval from administration of the drug until it reaches the highest level in the mother's plasma or peak time to max (Tmax), percentage of maternal protein binding (PB), oral bioavailability (Oral), the volume of distribution (Vd), the pH at which the drug is equally ionic and nonionic (pKa), and the molecular weight (MW) of the medication.
Now Available! Can I breastfeed if I have diabetes? Can I breastfeed if my baby has PKU? These and many other medical conditions are covered in Breastfeeding and Diseases.
Breastfeeding and Diseases describes common diseases that mothers and babies may have, discusses how the disease is usually treated, explains how breastfeeding may help the disease or if it is contraindicated, and gives a summary recommendation. Written by E. Stephen Buescher, a leading pediatrician and researcher, Breastfeeding and Diseases is a resource you will go to often.
This reference guide includes:• A description of each disease
- Common treatment for the disease
The impact of breastfeeding on the disease
- How the disease will impact breastfeeding
- A summary that states whether or not breastfeeding is recommended if mother or child has the disease and what precautions the mother needs to take when breastfeeding
Some of the new features include:
-Signs and symptoms of the disease
-The effects of medications needed to treat the disease on the breastfed infant.
History and Assessment: It's All in the Details, helps with pregnant or breastfeeding mothers who have undergone breast or nipple procedures? Breastfeeding after these procedures can be challenging. Lactation consultant Diana West and (plastic surgery resident) Dr. Elliot Hirsch have teamed up to write Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Procedures: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals. West and Hirsch cover a variety of pertinent issues including:
• Predicting lactation capability after breast and nipple
procedures
• Effects of tissue healing upon lactation capability
• Effects of diagnostic, ablative, and therapeutic
procedures upon lactation functionality
• Breastfeeding during chemotherapy
• Effects of cosmetic breast surgeries on breastfeeding
• Lactation management in the post-breast or post-nipple
surgical mother
• Supplementation to maximize breastfeeding
• Post-surgical complications after breastfeeding
• Effective breastfeeding counseling for mothers who
have undergone breast or nipple procedures
Best Medicine: Human Milk in the NICU, physicians Nancy Wight, Jane Morton, and Jae Kim discuss the use of human milk and the support of breastfeeding for the premature infant and for all NICU
infants. They provide both the “why” and the “how” to enable health care providers to take full advantage of human milk, and evidence to empower mothers of NICU infants to access needed assistance. They conclude that human milk should be the standard of care for all infants, particularly preterm infants. In addition, they cover:
• Preterm developmental physiology
• Nutritional goals for preterm infants
• Nutritional best practices for the preterm infant
• Evidence for use of human milk in preterm infants
• Challenges of human milk for preterm infants
• Donor milk for preterm infants
• Managing breastfeeding in the NICU
• Breastfeeding the late preterm infant
• Breastfeeding the NICU graduate
History and Assessment: It's All in the Details, lactation consultant Denise Altman discusses the information that should be obtained during the history taking part of the patient interview and shows how this information offers triggers for close observation during the physical assessment that help the health provider identify breastfeeding problems. Examples, case studies, and sample forms are included to better show the process.
This book covers:
• Cross cultural communication
• Documentation and charting methods
• Types of interview questions
• Maternal and infant history
• Maternal and infant physical assessment
• Feeding assessment
• Unique situations that affect breastfeeding - piercings,
abuse, NICU baby, multiples, and adoption
• Critical thinking skills