Last update Sept. 29, 2011

Tetrachloroethylene

High Risk

Poorly safe. Evaluate carefully. Use safer alternative or interrupt breastfeeding 3 to 7 T ½ (elimination half-lives). Read the Comment.

It is a halogenated hydrocarbon product. A fluid industrially used in dry cleaning, oil and stain removal. Appropriate ventilation is required to keep TLV-TWA less than 50 ppm (339mg/m3).
It is irritant to skin and mucous surfaces, and a CNS depressant substance. Accidentally occurring exposure is very dangerous to the mother (TLV-STEL must be less than 200 ppm=1357mg/m3). In case of such exposure, the mother should stop nursing the baby for the next 15 days (a case of one infant who developed severe jaundice after having been nursed by a recent exposed women). It is worth to test levels on breast milk.

Alternatives

We do not have alternatives for Tetrachloroethylene.

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.

Jose Maria Paricio, Founder & President of APILAM/e-Lactancia

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Thank you for helping to protect and promote breastfeeding.

José María Paricio, founder of e-lactancia.

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Pharmacokinetics

Variable Value Unit
Molecular weight 166 daltons
M/P ratio 3.3 -

References

  1. INSHT - Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo. Límites de exposición profesional para agentes químicos en España. 2017 Full text (in our servers)

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