Ketamine

Review
In: Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed®) [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; 2006.
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Excerpt

Ketamine and its active metabolite appear in milk in very low levels and its oral bioavailability is low, indicating a low risk to breastfed infants. Available data indicate that ketamine use in nursing mothers may not affect the breastfed infant or lactation. Until more data are available, ketamine should be used with careful infant monitoring of the infant for sedation, poor feeding and poor weight gain.[1,2]

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