Effect of Counseling on Maternal Reporting of Adverse Effects in Nursing Infants Exposed to Antibiotics Through Breast Milk

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Reproductive Toxicology, "In a recent trial, we found that nursing women reported diarrhea in their nursing infants after maternal use of antibiotics. However, because they were told that this could occur during a medication counseling session, the observed effect could have been due to a reporting bias. The objectives of this study were to determine if counseling nursing women about side effects of antibiotic they used could (a) influence the adverse event reporting rate or (b) influence maternal nursing and medication compliance behavior. In a randomized, controlled trial, nursing women calling a teratogen information...

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