Last update May 21, 2021
Compatible
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.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Maternal infection belongs to this group or family:
Write us at elactancia.org@gmail.com
e-lactancia is a resource recommended by IHAN of Spain
Would you like to recommend the use of e-lactancia? Write to us at corporate mail of APILAM
Sexually transmitted infectious disease caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
It can be transmitted during passage through the birth canal. Postnatal transmission through contact with the mother or her partner is very rare. Transmission through human milk has not been documented (Lawrence 2004).
Gonorrhea is not a contraindication to breastfeeding (OWH 2015).
The antibiotics used for its treatment (ceftriaxone, cefixime, azithromycin or doxycycline) are compatible with breastfeeding (Fantasia 2013).
If the treatment is done with intramuscular or intravenous ceftriaxone, no separation time between mother and baby is necessary and breastfeeding can begin immediately. With other treatments, a 24-hour separation is convenient and, meanwhile, expressed breast milk can be administered (Lawrence 2016, p791).
Newborns of mothers diagnosed with gonorrhea, still asymptomatic, should receive a dose of intramuscular or intravenous cefrtriaxone (Red Book 2018 p364).
Hygienic prevention measures (hand washing) must be taken to the extreme.
See below the information of these related products: