If I took Dihydrocodeine 30mgs 15 hours ago, and 2 glasses of wine, is it safe to express my milk now and feed it baby?

[OnEdge]

Not sure how it works, my 4 month old is fed formula mostly and one or two bottles of my expressed milk a day. Had severe toothache last night following treatment and took dihydrocodeine 30 mgs and also ad 2 glasses of wine.

Have just expressed a couple of ounces, should I chuck it ?

[TrillianAstra]

Wine will definitely be fine, not sure about the codeine.

[ChilledChick2]

Your BM might be OK, but I don't understand why you mixed codiene-based pain relief and alcohol. You may end up with a banging head and feeling sick, so just making you aware of what could happen.

Back in the past, I had co-codamol 8/500mg (for a bad back) and had less than 1 glass of wine on a meal out with DH. Hadn't taken my pain relief for over 48hrs and still ended up with the hangover that had me spending over 24hrs feeling rough as a badgers bum.

[OnEdge]

yes i realised within a couple of hors it had been a mistake, i'm fine now, just worried about the milk, so it should be ok to feed it to her ?

[tiktok]

Your milk will be fine - even if you hadn't waited it would be fine. It takes 1.5 hours to process one unit of alcohol - when it's out your blood it's out your milk.

[OnEdge]

tiktok that same for codene ?

[OnEdge]

sorry for grammar etc one handed typing, baby in other

[tiktok]

www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/drugs-in-breastmilk-information-and-factsheets.html and click on codeine.

You can also check on lactMed toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT.

I'm not a pharmacist but I'd be surprised if 30 mgs of codeine were still hanging around all this time.

[PenguinArmy]

ouch on the codeine and the wine.

I was on codeine on two weeks when DD was born. Nothing was ever mentioned to be about effects on BF.

[porcamiseria]

i am bf baby after a general anesthetic! on their advice but hes fine. in general codine based are OK but if worried just FF instead

i also drink wine, no drama. the only thing that has caused a change was lentils!

[PickleSarnie]

They gave me dihydrocodeine when I was in hospital. They knew I was breast feeding - I assumed that they wouldn't have given me anything that would be contra-indicated.

[PickleSarnie]

Sorry, should have said "when I was in the maternity hospital straight after giving birth"