To ask about co codamol when breast feeding?

[Witsendmummy]

I just just taken one 30mg/500mg co codamol and just didn't think to check if it's safe. I'm breast feeding. I'm finding contradicting info on the internet. Are they ok, if not what should I do?!

Substances leave your breastmilk the same as they leave your blood so I don't think it's necessary to pump and dump this morning :)

Pumping and dumping is a pointless concept. If you have a substance in your blood now, it will also be present in your breast milk. If you pump that milk anything in your blood will still be present in the your milk after you’ve pumped.
If the substance leaves your blood in 2 hours you don’t need to pump to “get rid of the milk” with it in, you just need to wait the two hours. When it leaves your blood it will also leave your breast milk (yes, even milk that has already been produced and is stored in your breasts)

You don't need to dump your milk. Medications and alcohol disappear from your milk at the same rate they do your blood. Your boobs don't store it up

I spoke in depth to my consultant about this - GP’s refused to prescribe it until he wrote to them to ‘ok’ it.

As pp’s have said some people metabolise it much faster than normal, I think it’s due to an faulty chromosome? The info is out there on google. However consultant said as I knew how I reacted to codine pre pregnancy the risk was incredibly low that morphine would reach baby.

That being said I wouldn’t advice you take it without getting the go ahead.