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How Long Does Hydrocodone Stay In Breastmilk. People eliminate medications at different rates. Two mothers who were taking an acetaminophen and hydrocodone combination product donated pumped milk for analysis of hydrocodone. Prescription Medication Use. Now you should put baby to breast as often as.
This reduces the amount of medication transferred to breast milk. The time hydrocodone is highest in your breastmilk Tmax is the first hour after your dose and the half-life time it takes for half of the medication to be eliminated from your system is 4 hours after your dose. As long as your 24 hour intake is less than 30mg there should be minimal effect on the baby - a little drowsiness may occur not as vigorous feeding. Peak milk levels of 10 to 15 mgL occurred between 1 and 2 hours after the dose in all patients. Few medications are contraindicated while breastfeeding. Hydrocodone is a opioid narcotic.
If you are waiting eight hours that allows 75 percent of the drug to be eliminated.
In breastfeeding mothers the ultra-rapid conversion of codeine to morphine and tramadol to M1 can result in high and unsafe levels of morphine and M1 in blood and breast milk. Two mothers who were taking an acetaminophen and hydrocodone combination product donated pumped milk for analysis of hydrocodone. How long does the drug stay in my body. Hydrocodone has an average half-life of roughly 38 hours in healthy adult males. Although case reports suggest that hydrocodone in breast milk sometimes may be problematic for the breastfed infant no reports exist on the amount of its excretion into breast milk. Acetaminophen was undetectable.