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Health Tip: Medications and Pregnancy

Health Tip: Medications as well as Pregnancy

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(HealthDay News) -- You may take confident over-the-counter supplements as well as medications without thinking twice. But when you're pregnant, even drugs that you can purchase without a prescription can affect the developing fetus.

The American Academy of Family Physicians offers these safety guidelines about medications as well as pregnancy:

• Don't take any medicine or herbal supplement without checking with your doctor.
• Try not to take any medicine during your earliest trimester of pregnancy, when your baby is most likely to be affected.
• Incase you are having pain, acetaminophen is usually protected for pregnant women to take for a abridged period. But you should earliest check with your doctor.
• Don't take aspirin while you're pregnant.
• Don't take an NSAID -- such as Advil, Motrin or Aleve -- while you're pregnant, particularly during your third trimester.

-- Diana Kohnle

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