Last update Feb. 12, 2025
Compatible
We do not have alternatives for Fusafungine since it is relatively safe.
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.
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e-lactancia is a resource recommended by AELAMA of Spain
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Fusafungin is a depsipeptide antibacterial produced by Fusarium lateritium. It is active against some gram-positive and gram-negative organisms, Candida albicans and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. It is used in aerosol form in the treatment of upper respiratory tract infections (throat and nasal passages), inhaled (nasally or orally).
At latest update, relevant published data on excretion into breast milk were not found.
It is not absorbed and does not appear in the plasma (AEMPS 2013), hence it appearance in the human milk is highly unlikely. In any case, it would not be absorbed by the infant.
Marketed product in many countries though retired licence in others for no proof on effectiveness. (Newsletter WHO 2005)