Last update Dec. 16, 2023
Compatible
We do not have alternatives for Sodium Benzoate. Benzoic Acid 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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Benzoic acid is a naturally occurring chemical found in plants, animals and fermented foods. Benzoic acid and its salt, sodium benzoate or benzoate of soda, have antibacterial and antifungal properties. They are used topically in eczema and fungal skin infections, and systemically as a urinary antiseptic, in cough preparations and in some inborn errors of metabolism; also as preservatives in foods (food additive E210), cosmetics and medicines.
At the time of the last update, we found no published data on its excretion in breast milk.
It is a substance considered safe in food and in topica application on the skin. (FDA 2023, Sambu 2022, Johnson 2017)
Recommendations for Drugs in the Eleventh WHO Model List of Essential Drugs: compatible with Breastfeeding. (WHO 2002)
Massive ingestion can produce severe metabolic acidosis (Langman 2022). Do not apply on the breast or clean well before breast-feeding.