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Many women of child-bearing age buy over-the-counter medications for a variety of disorders, such as seasonal allergies and asthma; colds, cough and flu; constipation; diarrhoea; heartburn; motion sickness; headaches; and difficulty sleeping. They want to know if these non-prescription drugs are safe for unborn babies. This book helps answer that question for consumers, and for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and students as well. All non-prescription drugs contain one or more active ingredients that treat the patient's symptoms and are actually drugs themselves. FDA-approved prescription drugs are assigned a Pregnancy Risk Category: A, B, C, D, or X. When these drugs switch from prescription to non-prescription or over-the-counter status, their Pregnancy Risk Categories still applied. If the drug you are looking for isn't in the book, you can look up the active ingredients separately in the extensive list of active ingredients located in a separate section of the book.

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Gary Benfield, M.D. practiced neonatology at Akron Children's Hospital in Akron, Ohio, for thirty-five years. He is Professor Emeritus of clinical pediatrics at the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown, Ohio. He writes The Baby Beat, a weekly medical column for The Review, Alliance, Ohio's daily newspaper, and is the author of Walking the Baby Beat: Answers to Hundreds of Your Healthcare Questions and coauthor of Prescription Drugs in Pregnancy: Your Guide to Fetal Risk for Hundreds of Drugs, also published by Smart Start Press. He received his BS in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1959, his MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1965, and his MA in philosophy from Kent State University in 1988.

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