When pregnant, sometimes she requires medication to relieve asthma, headaches, migraine, or other health problems. However, some drugs are known to have adverse effects on fetal development, even in severe cases can cause disability or abortion.
The following is a headache tablets during pregnancy is safe and not safe:
Drug safety: Paracetamol
Drugs are not safe:
Codeine, because the risk of causing defects or abnormalities in the fetus.
Aspirin. Though so far there are no reports as a cause of birth defects, but it proved to aspirin can interfere with stages of fetal liver development.
Ibuprofen, risk of causing disruption in the process of formation of the fetal liver.
Alternative therapies:
Regularly walk in the open air is clean air and fresh.
Breaks, for example, take a nap with your eyes closed dyed fabric ice water, or cold blindfold.
Head massage to the neck and shoulders gently. Ask your partner to do so.
Try first treatment headache / migraine with alternative therapies. If the headache is not handled in a manner that, your new drug is safe for consumption during pregnancy.
We need to remember, that is not always a headache treatment with the drug. Be a risk of pregnancy. If no appropriate indications and dose use would risk disrupting the growth of the fetus.
Headache or migraine is a complaint which affects an estimated 90% of pregnant women, especially newly pregnant first. The cause is none other than the change in hormone levels, stress or depression.
Most pregnant women who consume no free drugs or herbal products as yet unknown effects on pregnancy. In contrast to prescription drug products, most of the herbs are not through clinical trials and safety for pregnant women consumed yet clearly known.
Step wise taking the drug while pregnant is a physician by asking drug safety (both the-counter medicines or drugs made from herbs) for the pregnancy and fetus.
Who regularly consumed drugs during pregnancy and the doctor's instructions, you should also not be stopped without the doctor's instructions first. These drugs are usually for pregnant women who have certain health problems, such as asthma, epilepsy (seizures), high blood pressure, and depression. When these drugs are stopped and the mother's health condition is not treated, may also be harmful to the growth and development of the fetus.
Until now, information on the effects of drugs during pregnancy is not complete, because the safety of the drug test is not done on pregnant women and the risk of ethical issues related to disability in the unborn fetus. Safety of the drug in pregnant condition is sometimes tested on pregnant animals, but not all of the drugs tested have the same activity in humans.
Therefore, it is important to discuss with your doctor about the use of medications, as it may consider the possibility of risks and benefits.
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