Last update July 17, 2023
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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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Infectious disease transmitted sexually or congenitally through the placenta.
The spirochete Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis, is not transmitted through breast milk. (Red Book 2021-24 p.731, Lawrence 2016 p463, Lanari 2012)
Avoid contact with skin lesions of secondary syphilis and stop breastfeeding if the lesions are in the chest area until they heal. (Lawrence 2016 p463, OWH 2015, Lanari 2012).
Normally, 24 hours after starting treatment with penicillin, no spirochetes are found in the lesions (Red Book 2021-24 p.743). Monitor the infant and administer treatment if necessary.
In the case of congenital syphilis, mother and newborn should be treated with penicillin. Breastfeeding is not contraindicated. The treatment of syphilis, penicillin or, in the case of allergy to penicillin, tetracycline or doxycycline, is compatible with breastfeeding.
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