Much of the pregnant women consume drugs that do not require a prescription during pregnancy, forgetting about the health effects that the self-medication it could cause both them and the baby. For this reason, we continue to insist on the importance of consult your doctor before taking any medication.
On first quarter, this self-medication has a higher risk, and can lead to malformations and even endanger the survival of the fetus. In the second quarter could prevent the growth of some tissues or organs and, in the third trimester, it could cause organ malfunction.
Consulting your doctor will help you take any medication without worries because he will inform you about the most appropriate, taking into account your stage of pregnancy and the necessary doses so that you can end that health problem without putting your health problem at risk. baby, as well as the time that you will have to take the medication.
Medications can be divided into different categories:
- Category A
They are those that during certain studies have not presented fetal risks in any of the stages of pregnancy.
- Category B
In this group we find those drugs that have not shown evidence of fetal risks and that their taking is generally accepted. During pregnancy.
- Category C
Conclusion drugs that they should only be administered when the benefit to be obtained adequately justifies the risk posed to the fetus.
- Category D
In this category are those drugs that are administered in a very controlled manner and only in the event that the patient's life is in risk or the disease that he suffers is serious and cannot be solved with another safer drug.
- Category X
They are those that are totally forbidden during or even before pregnancy because their benefit does not reach the enormous risk they pose for the child. future baby.