Last update Feb. 19, 2025
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We do not have alternatives for Isphagula 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 La Liga de la Leche, España of Spain
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Plantago ovata, ispagula, Indian plantain or blond psyllium is a herbaceous plant originally from South Asia. The seeds are used. It contains polysaccharides such as cellulose and mucilage. Mild mechanical laxative effect by absorption of liquids into the intestine. Hypocholesterolemic, hypoglycemic. Oral administration.
At the date of the last update we found no published data on its excretion in breast milk.
Widely used plant, even during pregnancy. Given its null intestinal absorption, it does not pass into plasma and therefore does not reach breast milk.
Infants of mothers who took ispaghula did not present any problem. (Faber 1988).
Expert authors consider the use of this medication safe during breastfeeding. (Hale, LactMed, Hagemann 1998)