Hale’s Medications & Mothers’ Milk
A Manual of Lactational Pharmacology
Common Abbreviations
| Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor | |
| Area under the curve | |
| Twice daily | |
| Plasma or milk concentration at peak | |
| Day | |
| Dalton | |
| et al. | “and others” |
| Gram | |
| Gastrointestinal | |
| Hour | |
| Lactation risk category | |
| Milk/plasma ratio | |
| Monoamine oxidase inhibitors | |
| Milligram per liter | |
| Milliliter (1 cc) | |
| Millimole of weight | |
| Molecular weight | |
| Nanogram per liter | |
| Not rated | |
| Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug | |
| Oral bioavailability (adult) | |
| Percent of protein binding in maternal circulation | |
| Picogram | |
| Pediatric elimination half-life | |
| As needed | |
| Daily | |
| Four times daily | |
| Relative infant dose | |
| Serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors | |
| Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors | |
| Adult elimination half-life | |
| Tricyclic antidepressants | |
| Three times daily | |
| Time to peak plasma level ( | |
| Volume of distribution | |
| Times | |
| Millicurie of radioactivity | |
| Microcurie of radioactivity | |
| Microgram per liter | |
| Micromole of weight |