Volume : 2, Issue : 10, October - 2013

The Use of Antidepressants and Antipsychotics in Lactation (A Review of Current Literature)

Dr. Avinash De Sousa

Abstract :

Treating psychiatric disorders in the post partum period when the patient is lactating is a complex and vexing issue. Little is known about the action of various psychotropic drugs through east milk and the effects on the infant. There are a large number of drugs in the arsenal of the psychiatrist to combat post partum psychiatric disorders and each of these have been used for some time or the other in a lactating patient with no concrete and sufficient case data. This review looks at the use of antidepressants and antipsychotic medication in lactation and aims to provide the clinician and the psychiatrist matter that shall make the decision regarding choice of a drug in a lactating patient an easy one