- Cocaine - MotherToBaby | Fact Sheets - NCBI Bookshelf
Exposure to cocaine is serious and can cause toxicity in the nursing child Symptoms can include irritability, choking, high blood pressure, vomiting, trouble breathing, and seizures Never put cocaine on your nipples to treat soreness
- Infants of Mothers with Cocaine Use: Review of Clinical and Medico . . .
Substance use and alcohol abuse during pregnancy may have various harmful consequences for both mothers and foetuses Intrauterine exposure to illicit substances can be investigated through maternal reports and toxicological tests on mothers’ and or newborns’ samples
- Cocaine and Pregnancy: Dangers of Using Cocaine While Pregnant
Cocaine’s negative effects on a fetus are largely due to the drug’s ability to easily cross the placenta and enter the unborn baby’s body, disrupting the central nervous system during crucial periods of fetal development and inhibiting healthy blood flow to the child’s brain 5
- Prenatal cocaine exposure - Wikipedia
Cocaine can also show up in breast milk and affect the nursing baby [27] [28] The severity of effects depends on how much of the drug is used, how often, and the stage in the development of the fetus [29] Cocaine prevents the reuptake of the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine [19]
- Prenatal cocaine: Whats known about outcomes? - Contemporary Pediatrics
Many of the effects of intrauterine exposure to cocaine occur in the central nervous system Although most cocaine-exposed infants do well, some display symptoms in the newborn period that mimic sepsis: lethargy, hypotonia, and decreased responsiveness to external stimuli Suck may be poor, and infants may have to be awakened for feedings
- Cocaine - medicines in pregnancy
Cocaine in the baby’s bloodstream reaches the baby’s heart, brain, and other organs Studies suggest that using cocaine during pregnancy may increase the risk of stillbirth, or of having a premature and or low birth weight baby
- Acute Neonatal Effects of Cocaine Exposure During Pregnancy - JAMA Network
The hospital utilization findings are reflective of cocaine’s effect on both gestation and birth weight, whereas the social impact as reflected through child protective services involvement and the infant’s living situation is a direct effect of the mother’s cocaine use
- Cocaine - MotherToBaby
Exposure to cocaine is serious and can cause toxicity in the nursing child Symptoms can include irritability, choking, high blood pressure, vomiting, trouble breathing, and seizures Never put cocaine on your nipples to treat soreness
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