Antibiotics in pregnancy
admin September 22nd, 2008
Readers may be aware of the recent news story concerning the use of antibiotic in pregnancy. The NPC blog has an informative post with useful links within it on this subject.
The prescription of antibiotics for women in spontaneous preterm labour whose waters have not broken and who have no evidence of infection has been associated with an increase in functional impairment and cerebral palsy in their children, according to a recent study. However, no association was found in women whose waters had broken. The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) has reviewed the results and advises that any association is unlikely to be directly to the antibiotic but rather due to a number of factors involved in the natural history of pre-term labour.
- teratogenicity
- Comments Off