Taking certain antibiotics during pregnancy may increase your risk of miscarriage
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When you?re pregnant and come down with an illness, you?re likely worrying about how the infection could affect your baby. As if that?s not enough, a large study out of the Université de Montréal warns that there are concerns around some of the antibiotics you may need to get better. Researchers found that many antibiotics used to treat infections are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage when taken in early pregnancy.
The study, which was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, showed the antibiotics azithromycin, clarithromycin, metronidazole as well as whole classes of antibiotics (sulfonamides, tetracyclines and quinolines) increased the risk of miscarriage when taken before the 20th week of pregnancy. Depending on the drug, the miscarriage risk increased by 65 percent to more than double. The problematic antibiotics are used to treat STIs, skin infections, respiratory infections and more. But not all antibiotics caused harm. In fact, those that are most often prescribed to treat infections in pregnant women?penicillins and cephalosporins?were not associated with a higher miscarriage rate.
This is not the first study to link antibiotics during pregnancy to miscarriage, but the evidence so far has been mixed. This study, which compared 8,702 women who had clinically diagnosed miscarriages before the 20th week of pregnancy to the medical charts of more than 87,020 women who gave birth, is one the first large studies to of...
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