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Simple one-compartment pharmacokinetic model: maternal plasma concentration halves every half-life
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After 5 × T½ about 3% remains. The calculator shows when that window opens. Applies to a single dose of drugs without milk accumulation.
Sources
- NIH LactMed – Drugs and Lactation Database
- Hale TW. Medications and Mothers' Milk, Springer 2019, ch. 1.
- Rowland M, Tozer TN. Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, 4th ed. Lippincott 2011 (single-compartment model).