Last update June 3, 2024
Compatible
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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Nonoxynol 9 in other languages or writings:
Main tradenames from several countries containing Nonoxynol 9 in its composition:
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e-lactancia is a resource recommended by La Liga de la Leche, España of Spain
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Nonoxynol-9 (N-9) is a nonionic surfactant used as a vaginal spermicide for damaging or destroying sperm. It is used in combination with diaphragm or condom in the form of gel, foam, cream or lubricant.
At the time of the last update, we found no published data on its excretion in breast milk.
It is presumed to have low plasma absorption through the vagina.
No problems have been observed in infants whose mothers have used it. (CLM 2012, Peralta 1983)
Recommendations for Drugs in the Eleventh WHO Model List of Essential Drugs: compatible with Breastfeeding. (WHO 2002)
Expert authors consider it compatible with breastfeeding. (Hale, Lactmed, CLM 2012, FFPRHC 2004).