TY - JOUR T1 - Risky maternal alcohol consumption during lactation decreases childhood abstract reasoning at school age JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 25 LP - 25 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2018-102999 VL - 22 IS - 1 AU - Ju-Lee Oei Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/22/1/25.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Gibson L, Porter M. Drinking or smoking while breastfeeding and later cognition in children. Pediatrics 2018;142:e20174266.Lactating mothers should be counselled about the potential for worse developmental outcomes in breastfed infants if they drink alcohol in large quantities or in a risky manner.Direct measures of alcohol in breast milk and the association with childhood neurocognitive functioning should be considered in future research.Maternal alcohol and cigarette consumption during pregnancy and lactation is a global problem. Prenatal alcohol exposure, especially in a binge pattern, is teratogenic and a well-documented risk for impaired childhood cognition and behaviour. Maternal alcohol is excreted in breast milk1 but its impact on childhood neurodevelopment is unclear.This study2 used data from an Australian government-funded study, Growing up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study … ER -