Aaargh Breastfeeding Panic and Tamazipan first thing tomorrow!

[santainthesnow]

Hello,

I have to have urgent dental work tomorrow morning.
My Dentist has said that I will have an oral drug Tamazipan ( I hope I have spelt this correctly) as a tooth needs to be taken out. The tooth needs to come out tomorrow! This all escalated this afternoon.

I can not delay this anymore . My teeth got very bad when I was pregnant as I suffered from vomiting for 39 weeks. Then I had a complete sugar - soft drink addiction through out my pregnancy until now which has corroded my teeth. I can never have anything fizzy again.

My baby is just over a year old and is BF.

My Dentist has suggested that if I have the procedure tomorrow morning I will be able to BF the following day. So it will 24 hours between bfeeds.

He suggested I express milk in advance for my baby, however I have never been able to express??

I intend to bf my baby at 9am tomorrow morning, then have the procedure at midday and then try bf him again tomorrow at 9am and go from there.

I am likely to out of it most of tomorrow so DH will be looking after the baby.

I suspect I will have a night of some bother, as our baby has not taken any other liquid apart from BMilk and Water. My baby feeds around 6-7 times a day but has fed say 4 times a day on the very odd occasion when I have been away or out etc. Coincidentally this week I have had work so I have only BF before 8am and after 6pm each day.

I was just going to ensure that my baby had lots of yoghurt and even ice cream in lieu of bm.

What would you do?

Does anyone have any similar experience?

Can anyone assure me that the tamazipan ( I have been assured it will be a smallish dose) will be out of my system in a day and will not impact my baby. As I can not see me expressing anything?

I also trust my supply will be fine if I do not bf for a day? Is this correct?

I am a complete novice as I have never ever had any medication, not even so much as a panadol?

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Please go to the very good info at www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk and find the factsheet on dental treatment. You can show it to your dentist.

There is normally no need to suspend bf for the sort of treatment you are having - but of course you need to check with your dentist first.

Search here for some reassuring stuff on tempazepam, too toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT again for sharing with your dentist.

Why is he giving you tamazipam? are you nervous patient? am having root canal done at the moment, and am just having my mouth numbed, i would check with dentist why you need it, also you can ask for an emergency refferal to dental hospital who will give you entenox?
phone a twenty four hour pharmacy for advice, but I was given tamazepam during labour with ds3 and as far as i am aware it is a short acting drug that only stays in your system for aprox 6hrs sorry haven't been much help have i? good luck

Thank you so much for taking the time - obviously I could not spell the drug correctly which hindered any searches. I will discuss with the dentist tomorrow, I think he may have meant now that I would only not be able to bf for about six hours as the procedure was going to be in the afternoon (and he said I would probably sleep immediately after) and I have brought the appointment forward.

charmum - yes I think he realises I am a nervous patient when it comes to it with dentistry, they have to gently persuade me to come in for appointments and I have kept delaying the extraction.

I hate the dentist's chair.

I do not have an NHS dentist (and people I know who have used our local one have had botched jobs) so I'm paying for this private.

Prior to this dentist I would just never go.