Posted AT 5:00 AM EDT on 10/05/06
Codeine can turn toxic in nursing mothers
TORONTO — Some mothers prescribed codeine after childbirth carry multiple copies of a gene capable of transforming the common pain reliever into morphine, producing a toxic breast milk that in one case killed a newborn.
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