First post, am new here, sorry if this is in the wrong topic.
Okay, I've tried a few times to find information on the subject without asking anyone but that hasn't worked. So I decided to come here with hopes someone has any info to spare me. I am a breast feeding mom, I have hurt myself recently and the pain is getting to be a bit to much. (I have back problems and I pulled my back)
I have used poppy seed tea before I was pregnant, but not since then. I am wondering how long the opiate would be I my breast milk, of it needs to be pumped and dumped, or if the drug leaves the breast milk like alcohol does?
During labor, I was given two shots of nubain and also a I.V of fentanyl, and T3's for recovery. That leads me to assume the opiate doesn't really get into the breast milk much seeing as they let me breast feed right away and during the recovery time, without any precaution. I would prefer to not have any drug in the milk when I nurse. (I have a stash so when she needs to eat it will be there) In the hospital while receiving the medicine it never really occurred to me it would be in my breast milk until now that I need something for pain. If anyone has any info(considering assumedly none of us are doctors), please let me know. I will not be using the tea if after 24 hours it still is in the breast milk.
edit: I also read the half life of morphine in milk is 3 hours. But I do not know if that means it is out of the milk at that point? Never really understood or needed to understand the whole half-life thing.
Okay, I've tried a few times to find information on the subject without asking anyone but that hasn't worked. So I decided to come here with hopes someone has any info to spare me. I am a breast feeding mom, I have hurt myself recently and the pain is getting to be a bit to much. (I have back problems and I pulled my back)
I have used poppy seed tea before I was pregnant, but not since then. I am wondering how long the opiate would be I my breast milk, of it needs to be pumped and dumped, or if the drug leaves the breast milk like alcohol does?
During labor, I was given two shots of nubain and also a I.V of fentanyl, and T3's for recovery. That leads me to assume the opiate doesn't really get into the breast milk much seeing as they let me breast feed right away and during the recovery time, without any precaution. I would prefer to not have any drug in the milk when I nurse. (I have a stash so when she needs to eat it will be there) In the hospital while receiving the medicine it never really occurred to me it would be in my breast milk until now that I need something for pain. If anyone has any info(considering assumedly none of us are doctors), please let me know. I will not be using the tea if after 24 hours it still is in the breast milk.
edit: I also read the half life of morphine in milk is 3 hours. But I do not know if that means it is out of the milk at that point? Never really understood or needed to understand the whole half-life thing.
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