Last update April 20, 2025
Compatible
We do not have alternatives for Cefazolin since it is relatively safe.
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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Cefazolin is a first-generation broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic. Intramuscular, intravenous or intraperitoneal administration.
Like most cephalosporins for which data are available, it is excreted in breast milk in very small, clinically insignificant amounts. (Fukada 1973, Yoshioka 1979, Zhang 1997)
Cephalosporins are widely used in paediatrics and are well tolerated, even from the neonatal period, so it is very unlikely that small amounts of cephalosporins in milk can cause problems for the infant. The dose that the infant can receive through breast milk is 100-400 times lower than the therapeutic dose for the infant. (Fulton 1992)
The possibility of gastroenteritis (Ito 1993) due to alteration of the intestinal flora must be taken into account.
Expert authors consider this medication safe for use during breastfeeding. (Hale, LactMed, Rowe 2013, Amir 2011).
American Academy of Pediatrics: Mediation usually compatible with breastfeeding. (AAP 2001)