懷孕期間可以服用過敏藥嗎?

懷孕期間可以服用過敏藥嗎?

NO DOUBT, SOME CAUTION is warranted when deciding whether to take any medication when pregnant or nursing.

毫無疑問，在決定是否在懷孕或哺乳期間服用任何藥物時(shí)，一定要謹(jǐn)慎。

That's because, experts say, while most medications are generally considered safe during this period, doctors and patients alike only have so much data to go on due a relative lack of research. There's a dearth of large, human studies on the safety and effectiveness of drugs for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.

專家說，這是因?yàn)?，雖然大多數(shù)藥物在這段時(shí)間內(nèi)通常被認(rèn)為是安全的，但由于研究相對(duì)缺乏，醫(yī)生和病人都只有這么多的數(shù)據(jù)可用。對(duì)于孕婦或哺乳期婦女服用藥物的安全性和有效性，缺乏大規(guī)模的人體研究。

For these patients "we have very limited information," says Dr. Catherine Spong, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and chief of maternal fetal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

對(duì)于這些患者，“我們的信息非常有限，”達(dá)拉斯德克薩斯大學(xué)西南醫(yī)學(xué)中心(UT Southwestern Medical Center)婦產(chǎn)科教授、母嬰醫(yī)學(xué)主任凱瑟琳·斯潘(Catherine Spong)博士說。

To be sure, medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration must be safe for women of reproductive age, she notes. "Many medications are commonly taken by lots of women – they may not even know that they're pregnant at the time – and have not been found to have adverse effects," Spong notes.

她指出，美國(guó)食品和藥物管理局(Food and Drug Administration)批準(zhǔn)的藥物必須對(duì)育齡女性安全。斯潘指出:“許多藥物通常是由很多女性服用的——她們可能甚至不知道自己當(dāng)時(shí)懷孕了——而且沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)有副作用。”

Still, there's a push to collect much more data on medications taken specifically during pregnancy. To that end, the 21st Century Cures Act established a Task Force on Research Specific to Pregnant and Lactation "to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding gaps in knowledge and research on safe and effective therapies for pregnant women and lactating women."

盡管如此，人們?nèi)栽谂κ占嚓P(guān)于孕期服用藥物的數(shù)據(jù)。為此，《21世紀(jì)治療法》成立了一個(gè)專門針對(duì)孕婦和哺乳期婦女的研究特別工作組，“就孕婦和哺乳期婦女安全有效治療的知識(shí)和研究方面的差距向衛(wèi)生與公眾服務(wù)部部長(zhǎng)提供咨詢。”

Allergy Medicines and Birth Defects

過敏藥物和先天缺陷

One reason antihistamines have been scrutinized is because past studies have raised concerns about a potential link between antihistamines and birth defects. However, a review by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the research that included more than 50 scientific articles through early 2014 found that most of the drugs don't appear to be linked to birth defects.

抗組胺藥物受到關(guān)注的一個(gè)原因是，過去的研究對(duì)抗組胺藥物與出生缺陷之間的潛在聯(lián)系提出了擔(dān)憂。然而，美國(guó)疾病控制與預(yù)防中心(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention，簡(jiǎn)稱cdc)對(duì)截至2014年初的50多篇科學(xué)論文進(jìn)行的一項(xiàng)審查發(fā)現(xiàn)，大多數(shù)藥物似乎與出生缺陷無關(guān)。

But the link has not been confirmed in subsequent studies.

但這種聯(lián)系尚未在隨后的研究中得到證實(shí)。

Taking Decongestants

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