This is a decision you and your doctor will make. Trientine has not been shown to cause birth defects or other problems in humans. However, it has been shown to cause birth defects in rats. It is not known whether trientine passes into the breast milk. This medicine has not been reported to cause problems in nursing babies.
Anemia is especially likely to occur in children during treatment with trientine.
Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults or if they cause different side effects or problems in older people. There is no specific information comparing use of trientine in the elderly with use in other age groups. Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of trientine.