Last update July 14, 2023
Likely Compatibility
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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Disease caused by the Hepatitis E virus (HEV), fecal-oral and vertical transmission during childbirth. Worldwide distribution but endemic in Southeast Asian and Central Asian countries. Generally benign, except in the third trimester of pregnancy when it can present as fulminant and fatal hepatitis (Chaudhry 2015, WHO 2014, Fiore 2009, Ranger 2002).
Although anti-HEV antibodies and HEV RNA have been found in colostrum and milk (Rivero 2016, Chibber 2004), transmission through breastfeeding has not been documented. (Krain 2014).
Transmission occurs exclusively in newborns born to mothers with acute illness at the time of delivery, even if they are not breastfed.(Chibber 2004)
Hepatitis E does not contraindicate breastfeeding. (Chaudhry 2015, Maher 2013, Sookoian 2006, Chibber 2004, Kumar 2001).