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Home » FDA Warns of Codeine Use in Certain Nursing Mothers
FDA Warns of Codeine Use in Certain Nursing Mothers
August 17, 2007
Nursing infants may be at an increased risk of morphine overdose if their mothers take codeine and have a genetic variation that causes them to be “ultra-rapid metabolizers” of the drug, the FDA warned.