Breastfeeding and taking supplements

[mrsmalumbas]

Hi all

Any bf experts out there? Just wanted to ask your views on something.

I am still bf my DD aged 2 (3 in Aug). She only nurses last thing at night and first thing in the morning.

Thing is, there are some dietary supplements I'd like to take, things like glucosamine for my aching joints and a supplement called 5-htp I want to try for PMS and related issues. I also wanted to take kelp for a while as an iodine boost as I tend to be a bit sluggish metabolism wise.

All these tend to say "do not take if breastfeeding". I am thinking that with a child of this age and the amount she feeds it's not likely to be an issue in terms of her ingesting vast amounts of the active ingredients.

Can anyone point me to any research (not necessarily on these particular supplements, as I suspect there won't be any) to support this view (or not)?

Ta

Claire

sorry, no reaearch, but yend to agree with you...hopefully bump it to soneone who knows!

Do know any BFC's you can call/go & see? Maybe a local LLL group or other group? I started taking a B6 supplement recently so called my LLL leader friend who read out the relevant passage from Hale's book. I had found some info on the net, but wanted to hear the actual text myself rather than rely on someone else's interpretation iyswim. If you haven't got anyone local then ring one of the helplines?

Kellymom mentions a little about Glucosamine: www.kellymom.com/nutrition/vitamins/reference-intake-table.html#Glucosamine

I'm presuming that the 5htp is a combination if things? Do you know what they are? I would be interested in looking at it myself if it's good for PMS as I am verry bad with it atm...the B6 seems to have had no effect

Thanks, yes I had forgotten about Hale's, I have a friend who might have a copy. Good link to Kellymom, it's been so long since I had any bf issues I had forgotten about that site, a great resource.

5-htp is an amino acid, it's a serotonin booster, so can be used for various things including depression.

Thanks

No probs......hope you find what you need.