Last update Dec. 26, 2023
Limited 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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Isometheptene is also known as
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e-lactancia is a resource recommended by Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine - 2015 of United States of America
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Isometheptene is a sympathomimetic with vasoconstrictor effect used to relieve painful spasms of migraine attacks in combination with other agents such as caffeine and metamizole. Oral administration.
At the time of the last update we found no published data on its excretion in breast milk.
Product with very few bibliographic references and/or very outdated, marketed in only a few countries.
The scarcity of known pharmacokinetic data does not allow predicting its possible excretion in breast milk.
Safer known alternatives are preferable during lactation, especially during the neonatal period and in case of prematurity.