Psychotropic Drugs during Lactation

Authors

  • Amlan Kusum Jana Assistant Professor KPC Medical College & Hoispital, Kolkata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51332/bjp.2014.v19.i1.65

Abstract

Antipsychotic use during lactation is often for postpartum (1-2/1000)/puerperal psychosis. Children born out of mothers with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder who are symptomatic are at increased risk of developing physiologic, psychological and personality development disturbances in the adulthood (Dellisch 1989; Schubert and McNeil 2003; 2004). To make matters worse, women are at risk of relapse after delivery even if they were remitted during the entire course of pregnancy.

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Published

2018-04-08