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Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
Medications that are definitely not safe to take when breastfeeding include radioactive drugs, antimetabolites, some cancer (chemotherapy) agents, bromocriptine, ergotamine, methotrexate, and cyclosporine.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.