Trazadone while breastfeeding

[lmc923]

I was prescribed trazadone prior to becoming pregnant. I took it durin pregnancy as ok'd by my obgyn but am not sure whether it's okay while breastfeeding. I take it for insomnia.

[admin]

IMC923:

Small levels of trazadone to transfer into human milk, but the dose to the infant is really really low. On a weight basis, an adult would receive 0.77 mg/kg whereas a breastfeeding infant, using this data, would consume 0.005 mg/kg. The authors estimate that about 0.6% of the maternal dose was ingested by the infant over 24 hours. Milk levels are probably too low to be clinically relevant in the breastfed infant.


Tom Hale Ph.D;.