Can pregnant women take anti-inflammatory drugs?

Pregnant women are often prone to catching colds during pregnancy, and their body resistance is not very perfect, so it is extremely easy to encounter indigestion at this time. What everyone must pay attention to is that try not to take anti-inflammatory drugs, because they may cause fetal malformations and even affect the normal development of the fetus.

Because some drugs are harmful to the fetus and may even cause fetal malformations.

There are many teratogenic drugs, usually the following types of drugs:

1. Antibiotics - such as tetracycline, oxytetracycline, streptomycin, gentamicin, neomycin, etc. Tetracycline and oxytetracycline can cause fetal short limb deformity, fontanelle bulge, and congenital cataracts. Taking them in the late pregnancy can cause dental enamel hypoplasia in childhood. Streptomycin and gentamicin can damage the eighth cranial nerve of the fetus, leading to congenital deafness and kidney function. Neomycin can cause abnormal bone development, paradoxicals, renal and pulmonary arteriolar stenosis, congenital cataracts, and intellectual disability in the fetus.

2. Antimalarial drugs - such as quinine, chloroquine and pyrimethamine - can cause multiple fetal malformations. Such as deafness, limb loss, hydrocephalus, etc.

3. Drugs for treating diabetes, such as chlorthiopropamide, damiprolamide, and glycopyrrolate, can cause limb deformities, cleft lip, stillbirth, etc.

4. Barbiturates and other sedative hypnotic drugs, such as phenytoin, primidone, and tranquilizers, can cause malformations of the limbs, face, and brain.

5. Anti-cancer drugs - such as dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, 5-fluorouracil, thiotepa, etc., can cause anencephaly, hydrocephalus, cleft lip, cleft lip, kidney and ureteral defects, limb and eye deformities, etc.

6. Hormone drugs - such as ethinyl estradiol, progesterone, androgen, cortisone. Oral contraceptives can cause malformations of the fetal reproductive organs. Such as masculinization of female fetuses, hypertrophy of the clitoris, fusion of the labia majora, and inferior urethra in male fetuses.

7. Anticoagulant drugs - such as heparin, dicoumarol, aspirin, salicylic acid, etc. can also cause teratogenesis and induce bleeding diseases. In short, care should be taken to avoid drug abuse during pregnancy. However, if there is an emergency situation that endangers the life of the pregnant woman and medication is necessary, the priority should be to save the life of the pregnant woman. Once the emergency situation is over, the dosage should be reduced or the medication should be stopped quickly. The idea that refusing to take medicine will affect the fetus is also wrong. If the life of the pregnant woman is in danger, how can the fetus be safe? Therefore, when it comes to the issue of medication for pregnant women, we should distinguish the primary and secondary contradictions and take them into comprehensive consideration.