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Is it allowed to take Metrizamide during lactation?
Is it safe for a nursing mother and a child?

X-ray contrast medium with 48% iodine. It has been withhold from the market.Metrizamide is excreted into breast milk in clinically non-significant amount (Illet 1981: <0.1% of maternal dose). The various iodinated contrast media for imaging examinations (X-rays, CT scans) are considered compatible with breastfeeding since they are rapidly eliminated with little or no release of iodine, not metabolized and virtually not absorbed when taken by mouth. They are structurally very similar to each other and one of them is their data no or minimal excretion in milk. Given the low lipid solubility of the iodinated contrast, less than 1% of the dose administered to the mother just passing milk.Due to their low oral bioavailability, intestinal absorption is less than 1% of the dose that he may take the infant.The maximum dose just getting the baby is less than 0.01% of the maternal dose, which represents less than 1% of the dose administered to a nursing practice that is a radiological contrast examination. Most radiology scientific societies agree that after a radiological iodinated contrast examination is not necessary to wait any time to resume nursing.

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Types of risk

VERY LOW RISK
It is allowed while breastfeeding. It is not dangerous for a baby. It is moderately safe. more...

LOW RISK PROBABLE
Possible presence in breast milk is allowed. Follow the doctor's recommendation. more...

HIGH RISK PROBABLE
An unsafe drug, it is necessary to assess the risks while taking. Use safer analogs. more...

VERY HIGH RISK
It is not recommended. You need to stop breastfeeding or choose a safe analog. more...

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+3 #1 Reviewer: 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient) 2017-08-24 08:28
I was given an MRI in 1984 and injected with Metrizamide. One hour after the procedure was over and I was back in my hospital room I sufferd a grand mal seizure and was treated under Code Blue procedures for over a half hour. It was so serious a seizure that a priest had been summoned to administer last rites and upon my awaking and seeing him I went into shock. I was kept in the hospital two days and when released I was told that my condition was rare but that it had happened to others. I was later experiencing stabbing pains in the area of the injection site and was told that it was normal. That condition remained for 20 years.

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