breast feeding and fluoroquinolones

If you are breast feeding or pregnant you should not be taking fluoroquinolones:

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Because of the potential risk to the infant, breast-feeding while using this product is not recommended. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.

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... FDA Pregnancy Category C . Breast-feeding Ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and sparfloxacin are known to be distributed into human breast milk . ...

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Breast Feeding

Moxifloxacin may pass into breast milk and cause serious side effects in the nursing infant; use of the drug is discouraged when nursing.

From the monograph:Avelox may appear in breast milk and could affect a nursing infant. If this medication is essential to your health, your doctor may advise you to discontinue breastfeeding until your treatment is finished.

One member of the forum has a child who suffered severe seizures as a result of her doctor's ignorance regarding this issue. As such the members should be warned to stop breast feeding immedately if they have taken fluoroquinolones. There has also been one lawsuit filed alleging that these drugs resulted in the death of a fetus resulting from the mother being prescribed these drugs while pregnant. Do to the inability to prove causation, however, the mother lost her case. As current research has found traces of these drugs long after therapy has ceased it would be prudent to assume that even if you have stopped taking the drugs it still would not be safe to start breast feeding again.