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[ID] 821 [Interest Areas] Community Organizer Concerned Citizen Health Care Provider Lactation Professional Researcher [Comment] Pharmacists in most major pharmacies are still using the PDR for drug information on breastfeeding. Unfortunately, women are often told to 'not breastfeed' by pharmacists when this information is absolutely not true. This is unethical medical practice. A recent example is a lactating woman for whom I provided a clindamycin prescription. She was told by the pharmacist that she should not breastfeed while taking the medication! Something needs to be done to teach pharmacists lactation physiology and appropriate resources for drug information during lactation. And, if pharmacists believe that a woman should not breastfeed while taking a certain drug, they should contact the physician who wrote the script. This sort of advice is not appropriate for a pharmacist to give casually to a patient. It should be handled in the same way that an allergy is. If a patient has an allergy to a med that is prescribed, the pharmacist calls the doctor to find an alternative for the patient. [Topic] 
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