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Green breast milk - rare side effect of maternal propofol

Stefan Johansson
in Nutrition & Feeding

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Breastfeeding mothers having propofol sedation at surgery, may have green discoloration of the breast milk, I just read a short clinical pharma column in the Swedish Medical Journal.

I found this longer case report from Canada about this, it seems propofol metabolites can discolour biological fluids other than urine. The authors advice no breast feeding until the color has normalised.

Rare thing but still interesting to know and be aware of!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6306180/

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