Bibliographic information
GuidelineClinical management and infection prevention and control for mpox: living guideline, May 2025
Year of Publication2025
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
New
WHO suggests that mothers who recover from mpox infection and who had withheld breastfeeding and direct contact, to resume breastfeeding and direct contact with the infant as soon as lesions are healed
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Notes and Remarks
- This recommendation applies to mothers with confirmed mpox who withheld breastfeeding and close contact with their infant.
- The mother needs to be supported to continue to express milk while not breastfeeding to maximize the likelihood of reinitiating breastfeeding once recovers and avoid complications (e.g. mastitis).