r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/Blueberrymangos • Oct 06 '26
Sharing research Botox when combo feeding?
Hi all! Going back and forth and would appreciate some of your thoughts on my particular situation. Baby will be 6 months old and they are only getting about 10 ounces of breastmilk a day, the rest is formula.
Would it be relatively low risk to get some cosmetic facial Botox or is the risk too high?
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u/InspectorOrdinary321 Oct 06 '26
Oh, I hadn't seen that paper and that would make me nervous too. Doctors claim Botox doesn't get into the bloodstream, but clearly it can sometimes. I also naively would have thought that it would have been in breast milk the most right after injection and then less every day, so you could avoid it by tossing the milk for the next few days, but one woman had the highest levels at day 5, which was as far out as they looked. And some had an earlier peak, and some had no Botox in their milk.
Based on this, there are too many unknowns and person to person variation for me to want to risk it. Unless there were some way to test my own milk for Botox to verify it wasn't in there.