New report of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Breast implants do not interfere breast feeding

11/09/2001 – On the basis of a revision of different studies on the security of breast feeding, a team of experts of the American Academy of Pediatrics stand that the women with a breast silicone implant can nurse her children without difficulties.

Except for a 1994 study that reported an upheaval of the esophageal function in 11 babies whose mothers had a breast implant, the revision did not find scientific papers that adjudge to silicones negative effects on the breast feeding. 

The report, published this month in the Pediatrics magazine, emphasizes that substances similar to silicone appear in cow milk, and in the compounds of simeticona that are used for colic pains, without they have collateral effects. 

However, the group of pediatrics noticed that certain medicines that do take the women during the stage from breast feeding could contaminate their milk. In addition, the specialists said that it was not possible to be foretold the long term effects of sedatives, antidepressants and other medicines that usually appear in small concentrations in the maternal milk of the women who consume them. 

Pediatrics 2001;108:776-789