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Safe cold medicines while breast feeding pseudoephedrine and phenylephedrine are oral decongestants for treating nasal congestion caused by colds allergies and sinus infections. Medicines with the active compound acetaminophen like tylenol crocin etc can be taken for a cold while breastfeeding.

Medications Breastfeeding

Here is a list of safe and best cold medicines for a breastfeeding mother.

Safe cold medicine while breastfeeding. And when the symptoms won t seem to. Aspirin is not recommended due to the risk of reye s syndrome. Is it safe to take cold medicine while breastfeeding.

As a result it s considered safe during breastfeeding and it s often a go to for controlling pain while recovering from childbirth injuries or c sections. An analgesic acetaminophen can relieve you from fever inflammation and pain. Often found in robitussin mucinex and more dextromethorphan has been studied in breastfeeding women and is considered safe.

Be careful about taking tylenol while you re also taking cold and flu products like nyquil dayquil excedrin or robitussin though. Often found in alka seltzer plus tylenol cough cold vicks dayquil and nyquil and more. Cold and flu medications containing phenylephrine and pseudoephedrine are not recommended.

When you already have a baby tugging at your chest to nurse a cold is the last thing your body needs. Pseudoephedrine can lower the amount of breastmilk a woman s body can make. A pain killing drug known as codeine can infant drowsiness central nervous system depression and even death.

Guaifenesin has not been tested on breastfeeding moms but it s sometimes given to infants directly.