Question!

[pyzia]

I have a question, can you take L-tyrosine for ppd while bf and how safe is it?????

[tanyalynn]

I don't have answers, but maybe some thoughts that could lead you to answers. I was curious, so I went to the online Hale's breastfeeding & meds website. Here's the link if you want it.

http://neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact/medi...orumspage.html

Enter as a guest and you can search past questions. Only healthcare professionals can ask questions.

But the problem is, I've searched for a few other things, and his comments are uniformly negative towards vitamin/mineral/herbal supplements and much more positive toward pharmaceutical drugs. So I don't know how much credence to put in his advice for the vitamin/mineral/herbal stuff.

That said, I wondered how much tyrosine is in foods. I thought eggs have a relatively high amount (but I am in no way an expert, or even a truly informed amateur) so I went to

http://www.nutritiondata.com/

which I like as a good place to look up nutrition data on a variety of foods. One chicken egg has 257mg of tyrosine. I'm not saying you should just eat eggs, or even just do foods instead of supplements (I'm taking a lot of supplements at the moment, but for a competely different problem) but it may help as a comparison point to whatever dosage you are considering.

Good luck.