Last update Aug. 6, 2022
Likely Compatibility
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
Your contribution is essential for this service to continue to exist. We need the generosity of people like you who believe in the benefits of breastfeeding.
Thank you for helping to protect and promote breastfeeding.
Alcuronium Chloride is also known as
Alcuronium Chloride in other languages or writings:
Main tradenames from several countries containing Alcuronium Chloride in its composition:
Write us at elactancia.org@gmail.com
e-lactancia is a resource recommended by La Liga de la Leche de México of Mexico
Would you like to recommend the use of e-lactancia? Write to us at corporate mail of APILAM
It is a non-depolarizing muscle relaxant drug with a peripheral action that is used as premedication for endotracheal intubation, general anesthesia and mechanical ventilation. Intravenous administration.
At latest update, no relevant published data concerning excretion into breast milk were found.
Quaternary ammonium muscle relaxants are poorly absorbed from the gastro-intestinal tract; its low oral bioavailability renders the pass of this agent to the infant's plasma highly unlikely. (Dalal 2014, Spigset 1994)
Alcuronium does not prevent a mother from breast feeding her baby shortly after recovering from anesthesia if she is awake and in good condition.
Recommendations for Drugs in the Eleventh WHO Model List of Essential Drugs: compatible with Breastfeeding. (WHO 2002)
It is a product that is rarely used with very few bibliographic references. Other muscle relaxants with a more rapid elimination time period and better known drugs are preferred.