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Covid vaccine for breast feeding mother
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Wanted to know whether breast feeding mother of a 19 month old child can take vaccine?The child is mainly taking breast milk
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Vaccine is essentially safe but at present no sufficient studies available to establish its safety.
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Since child is 19 months, try and wean off and take vaccine as soon as possible
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There are no study regarding the safety of covid-19 vaccine on breastfeeding mother.
FOGSI A large body of gynaecology association of strongly recommends vaccination. It secrets in milk & gives protection to baby. As it is a mrna vaccine it does not harm to mother.
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Choice is of mother. Those who got vaccinted did not see sny side effect till now.
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Dr. Pritam Duttagupta
General Physician
12 yrs exp
Kolkata
Presently enough information are not available regarding safety of Indian vaccines on children. Breastfeeding mothers will obviously pass the antibodies to baby through breast milk. That is good.
At present vaccination in this category is not advisable
But this may change anytime.
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Dr. Vikash Goyal
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14 yrs exp
Gurgaon
Not advisable
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Stop lactating and take the vaccine
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