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| What Harms Your Baby Most | Different kinds of medicine
You should be extremely careful with any medicine, especially during the first and the second months of your pregnancy, because at this period all baby’s organs and systems are being formed. Take any medicine only if it is really necessary, following your doctor’s advice. Remember, all the medicine you take your baby receives as well.
So, if you have got a headache, do not rush to take a pill, your little one does not need it at all.
According to statistics, more than 92 percent of women take different kinds of medicine in different periods of their pregnancy. It may be connected with the change of women’s health for the worse, or with the tendency of some people to enjoy by self-treatment. And not very few of these women think that uncontrolled taking of medicine may be revealed as the most harmful ecological factor relating to the fetus. It may cause great negative changes of his development. It is especially unadvisable to take medicine during first three months of pregnancy.
And not everyone knows that some kinds of medicine are able to harm your future baby even before the fertilization occurs! If a woman takes them shortly before her pregnancy, it may cause changes of a genetic code and of the ovule.
Some practical tips:
- Never have recourse to self-treatment during the pregnancy period. It is especially important while dealing with unknown or new kinds of medicine. You should ask your doctor’s advice anyway.
- If you took a medicine and had no idea about your pregnancy (like if it happened during two first weeks of it), you should consult with your doctor immediately about possible harmful influence of the medicine. Early consultation will let to you estimate the risk and make a decision about the future of your pregnancy.
- If your doctor prescribed you the medicine, ask him about any possible negative effect on the fetus. Do not be shy to ask such questions.
- If you are pregnant, try to do your best not to fall ill. It is especially important to stay healthy during three first months of pregnancy. Try to avoid contacts with ill people; do not be in crowded places, etc.
- Do not eat products that may cause allergy, do not eat any new products for you as well, as may have no idea how you will react upon them. If you have allergy now, you will have to take pills that may harm your baby’s development.
- If you are only planning to get pregnant, you should keep in mind all the negative factors beforehand. If you take hormonal contraception, stop taking it at least three months before you plan to get pregnant.
Alcohol
You have to reject alcohol completely. It goes through placenta without any impediment and influences the fetus even stronger than you. Avoid taking any alcohol containing medicine.
Drugs
Drug addicted pregnant women are in the risk group for many reasons. They often have hepatitis B and other virus’ diseases. Heroin is especially dangerous. At the pregnancy period heroin and other drugs, having low molecule mass, come through placenta and get accumulated in the fetus’ tissues. They violate baby’s metabolic processes formation, and damage his central nervous system.
Nicotine
It is the poison for vessels that means placenta does not get enough blood. Smoking stimulates miscarriage, bleedings and weakness of the baby’s respiratory system.
Passive smoking is dangerous as well. You inhale poisonous substances and they get into your blood. Try not to in one room with smoking people.
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