Thread by @audraf637

🧵I’ve been staying out of this debate but I think I have finally formulated my thoughts on “drug induced breast feeding”.

So I looked up each and every one of these drugs listed, and let’s see what exactly they are:
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Let’s go through these drugs one by one:

Domperidone-is a anti-nausea medication.

Haloperidol-is an anti-psychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia.

Risperidone-another antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia.

Chlorpromazine (aka Thorazine)-another antipsychotic.

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Fluphenazine-another antipsychotic

Metoclopramide-another GERD/anti-nausea medication.

And finally we have Prolactin and Progesterone, which are naturally occurring hormones but can be supplemented

Prolactin can cause bone density loss, menopausal symptoms, infertility. /3

Progesterone’s side effects are so numerous I’ve included a link here:

/4medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/…

What’s more, Domperidone was warned against by the FDA due to cardiac events in patients using it, and the drug is secreted in the breast milk with unknown consequences to the infant eating it. /5

fda.gov/drugs/informat…

And metoclopramide can cause involuntary muscle movements which can be permanent in some people. /6

medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/…

Here’s some links, read it for yourself the side effects of the antipsychotic medications.

Haloperidol:

Risperidone: https://t.co/K7xBtEGT6O

Chlorpromazine: https://t.co/AebeuFVUEP

Fluphenazine: https://t.co/vW7fmnFSVS

/7medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/…
nhs.uk/medicines/risp…
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/1…
medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/…

So I guess is this real life right now?

Are we actually prescribing medication meant for schizophrenia so that people can breast feed?

Is this really happening right now?

Drugs that have horrific side effects, some of them permanent? /8

How is this ethical, under any circumstances, to prescribe risky medications to people, some of which have zero studies in breastfeeding infants,

When you can buy a can of formula?

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The assertion that we are giving adoptive parents these drugs so they can breast feed,

Doesn’t make the situation better, it makes it WORSE.

If you have a heart attack /stroke, can’t hold your kid because you can’t stop shaking, you can’t buy back your health! /10

I will caution anyone who is considering this that you can buy a can of formula for your kid,

But you know what you can’t buy?

A new mom.

And your child NEEDS YOU more than breast milk! ❤️

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Just to make things clear, I’m unsure whether or not these drugs leak into breast milk.

The point of my thread was to point out the affects of these medications on the patient, not to center the affects of these medications on the infant.

Hope that clears things up.

Update: I thought this was too important not to add to this thread:

So apparently a drug can behave like an antipsychotic without being labeled as an antipsychotic. 😳

Scary stuff.

How many other medications have these affects? I have so many questions

https://t.co/Klt9bVAnngcbc.ca/news/canada/br…