New mothers are turning to a drug normally prescribed to HIV positive women to cut off their breast milk in order to avoid the effects of breastfeeding on their bust.
The drug cabergoline – an anti-lactation drug – is being prescribed for ‘social reasons’ for women who simply don’t want to face letting their breast milk dry up naturally or who find nursing painful.
It is also being used by career women who want to make a swift return to work, but do not want to have to cope with expressing milk from their engorged breasts when they do so.
