Medication safety for pregnant women

Medication safety for pregnant women is as important as medication and it should not be overlooked. First we will try to understand the term medication safety in short.

What Is Medication safety?
Medication or medicines are prescribed by the doctors to treat diseases, manage conditions, and relieve symptoms in patents. Generally medication is safe when used as prescribed or as directed by the manufacturer, but no one can deny that there may be some risks in taking any medicine. To know these risks and knowing well how to avoid them or taking safe substitute is called medication safety.

Medication safety for pregnant women
We all know that pregnancy is the most beautiful thing to receive an angel from the heavens but we can not deny that in today’s time it is the most difficult process for some women.
And when you are pregnant you experience a lot of changes into your body. At this sensitive time getting sick may be common but scary.
It is very important for a pregnant lady to know which medicines are safe to take at the stage of her pregnancy.
Over the counter drugs can ease side symptoms of pregnancy but can harm your growing little one and you too. It can give some birth defect and negative impact on your health too.

The basic guidelines for using medications safely

If you are considering pregnancy, are pregnant or are nursing, you should follow, with a few additional precautions:

1. If you know you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant, it is highly recommended that you consult your doctor as soon as possible, because sometimes even common and general medicines too can be dangerous to an unborn baby.
2. Always ask about any potential side effects to you or your fetus from medications that you might be prescribed and discuss in details the solutions of side effects of medication or the substitute safe medications.

3. So many drugs have impact on fertility so always be sure to take such medicines after consulting your doctor if you are trying pregnancy.
4. Breast-feeding mothers never hesitate to ask their doctors if any drug or medication their doctors prescribing or recommending is safe for the baby and herself too .

Expert’s advice:
Don't take any medication, supplement (like vitamins or minerals) or herbal remedy without first clearing it with your doctor.

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