Last update April 17, 2024
Compatible
We do not have alternatives for Мексилетин 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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Мексилетин is Mexiletine; Mexiletine Hydrochloride in Cyrillic.
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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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It is a class Ib antiarrhythmic with actions and structure similar to that of lidocaine. Indicated in ventricular arrhythmias and non-dystrophic myotonias. Oral or intravenous administration.
It is excreted in breast milk in clinically insignificant amounts. (Monfort 2021 & 2019, Lewis 1981, Timmis 1980)
No problems have been observed in nursing infants of mothers treated with Mexiletine (Monfort 2023, Lownes 1987, Gregg 1988, Timmis 1980), except for excessive weight loss at 17 days in a low-weight newborn whose mother was also taking atenolol, a possible cause real of the problem.. (Lownes 1987)
Plasma levels in these infants were undetectable. (Timmis 1980)
American Academy of Pediatrics: medication usually compatible with breastfeeding.(AAP 2001)