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Pharmacogenetics of neonatal opioid toxicity following maternal use of codeine during breastfeeding: a case-control study.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Jan 2009
Madadi P, Ross C J D, Hayden M R, Carleton B C, Gaedigk A, Leeder J S, Koren G
Abstract excerpt
A large number of women receive codeine for obstetric pain while breastfeeding. Following a case of fatal opioid poisoning in a breastfed neonate whose codeine prescribed mother was a CYP2D6 ultrarapid metabolizer (UM), we examined characteristics of mothers and infants with or without signs of central nervous system (CNS) depression following codeine exposure while breastfeeding in a case-control study. Mothers...
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