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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

breastfeeding

domperidone a.k.a drug to increase milk supply

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

domperidone is a last resort

i have no choice but to consume domperidone for a while

i am experiencing the decrease of milk supply

do not make domperidone as your first choice to maintain your milk supply

make sure eat and drink well

and the most important thing is frequently express your milk

i am doing my best

try to keep on expressing by 2 or 3 hours once

not to forget do power pumping twice a week

actually i am a bit worried if domperidone has effect to me

so i asked google

and luckily i've found this

all about domperidone

When is it appropriate to use domperidone?

Domperidone must never be used as the first approach to correcting breastfeeding difficulties. Domperidone is not a cure for all things. It must not be used unless all other factors which may result in insufficient milk supply have been dealt with first. These include:

1. correcting the baby's latch so that the baby can obtain as efficiently as possible the milk which the mother has available. Correcting the latch may be all that is necessary to change a situation of "not enough milk" to one of "plenty of milk."

2. using breast compression to increase the intake of milk (see Breast Compression).

3. using milk expression after feedings to increase the supply.

4. correcting sucking problems, stopping the use of artificial nipples (see Using a Lactation Aid, and Finger Feeding) and other stratagems.

Side effects of domperidone

As with all medications, side effects are possible, and many have been reported with domperidone (textbooks often list any side effect ever reported, but symptoms reported are not necessarily due to the drug a person is taking). There is no such thing as a 100% safe drug. However, our clinical experience has been that side effects in the mother are extremely uncommon, except for increasing milk supply. Some side effects which mothers we have treated have reported (very uncommonly, incidentally):

dry mouth
headache which disappeared when the dose was reduced
abdominal cramps

The amount that gets into the milk is so tiny that side effects in the baby should not be expected. Mothers have not reported any to us, in many years of use. Certainly the amount the baby gets through the milk is a tiny percentage of what babies would get if being treated for spitting up.