Favipiravir

Review
In: Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed®) [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; 2006.
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Excerpt

Favipiravir is an investigational antiviral drug in the US that is being tested for use against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Information from one patient indicates that milk levels are low with a peak level at about 2 hours. One infant has reportedly been breastfed by a mother receiving favipiravir and pumping her breasts after doses with no adverse effects reported in the infant. Favipiravir has caused liver enzyme abnormalities, gastrointestinal symptoms, and serum uric acid elevations.[1,2] If favipiravir is used in a nursing mother, these parameters should be monitored in the breastfed infant.

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