One of the biggest concerns of the future mom is what are the medicines that are considered safe in pregnancy.
While there is no drug that can be considered 100 percent safe for all individuals, including pregnant women and the fetus, pregnancy medications should always be prescribed by the doctor, take them only if they are strictly necesary and be very cautious with the dose, which should be the minimum possible.
Remember that drugs cross the placenta, so the fetus is exposed to doses indicated for adults. In addition, through the amniotic fluid that is swallowing, the fetus is successively exposed to its effects. Therefore, they should be avoided as much as possible and always have to be administered the minimum doses that have therapeutic effect.
According to the Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECMC), medicines that are considered safe in pregnancy they are the ones that appear in the following table:
The drugs can be classified into three groups:
1) Precise Drugs, without whose use pregnancy would not prosper (for example, insulin in diabetic pregnant women).
2) Drugs that reduce risks when treating diseases, although they are mild (such as treatment with paracetamol when there is a fever of 38.5º or more, since this is a very serious risk for the embryo and the fetus).
3) Drugs that prevent risks (Like folic acid, which prevents the appearance of several malformations, so it must be used).
Finally, I repeat and remember, it is very important. Medications should always be prescribed by the doctor.
