Side effects of oral contraceptive use in lactating women--enlargement of breast in a breast-fed child

Contraception. 1985 Nov;32(5):437-43. doi: 10.1016/0010-7824(85)90014-9.

Abstract

A case of breast enlargement in an eighteen-month-old breast-fed girl whose mother was using a combination pill containing 150/micrograms d-norgestrel and 30/micrograms ethinyl estradiol for three months is reported. Physical examination and endocrinological investigations in the girl did not reveal any abnormality. Breast enlargement subsided slowly over the next six months after discontinuation of breast-feeding.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Breast / drug effects*
  • Breast / growth & development
  • Breast Feeding*
  • Contraceptives, Oral, Combined / adverse effects*
  • Ethinyl Estradiol / administration & dosage
  • Ethinyl Estradiol / adverse effects
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Milk, Human
  • Norgestrel / administration & dosage
  • Norgestrel / adverse effects

Substances

  • Contraceptives, Oral, Combined
  • Norgestrel
  • Ethinyl Estradiol