Hi,
I recently had a baby, he is almost 6 weeks old and I have been breastfeeding. I have had a flare up the last couple weeks due to RA and have taken 1 prednisone pack (5mg for 5 days, which helped so much) and now until I see my doctor in ten days I am prescribed to take 5 mg of prednisone everyday, is this safe to do for my baby? During this pregnancy and up till now I have been on no meds. B4 having children I took humira 40 mg injected in stomach every 2 weeks. After my first child was born I weaned to formula after 6 weeks and then took humira every week for about 8 months. I would really like to continue breastfeeding this time and am wondering which drug would be best to take between Humira, Enbrel, or Remicade? I read your article on how drugs pass into milk, and I would like to know which drug pases thru the least, out of all the possible ways it could pass thru? And if there is a chance, that in the best drug you reccomend, some of it could still pass thru to the milk I would like to know of that too....if its possible to know. Do you think breastfeeding while on a drug is still better than formula? If you have any other advice please let me know? Thank you so much for your time and information.....I so so appreciate it!
I recently had a baby, he is almost 6 weeks old and I have been breastfeeding. I have had a flare up the last couple weeks due to RA and have taken 1 prednisone pack (5mg for 5 days, which helped so much) and now until I see my doctor in ten days I am prescribed to take 5 mg of prednisone everyday, is this safe to do for my baby? During this pregnancy and up till now I have been on no meds. B4 having children I took humira 40 mg injected in stomach every 2 weeks. After my first child was born I weaned to formula after 6 weeks and then took humira every week for about 8 months. I would really like to continue breastfeeding this time and am wondering which drug would be best to take between Humira, Enbrel, or Remicade? I read your article on how drugs pass into milk, and I would like to know which drug pases thru the least, out of all the possible ways it could pass thru? And if there is a chance, that in the best drug you reccomend, some of it could still pass thru to the milk I would like to know of that too....if its possible to know. Do you think breastfeeding while on a drug is still better than formula? If you have any other advice please let me know? Thank you so much for your time and information.....I so so appreciate it!
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