Cough medicine while breastfeeding?

[minties]

I just had a sudden thought, is cough medicine ok while breastfeeding? I've been taking some for 2 days. It has hydrobromide and dextromethorpan in it. It's for a dry cough.

 

[Nervous_1]

No idea hun, but this might help

https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/pdfs/Cough_and_Cold_Remedies_and_Breastfeeding_July_2009.pdf

 

[summer rain]

Both of them are not recommended when BF: the first one as it is a decongestant and could dry up your milk (even though its in a dry cough medicine, go figure) and the second one is an anti-cough agent basically it stops your muscles spasming and thus stops the cough-this is potentially dangerous though I doubt a few doses will have done any harm.

https://www.patient.co.uk/medicine/Hyoscine-hydrobromide.htm

https://www.drugs.com/dextromethorphan.html