Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Should Pregnant Women Take Sleeping Pills?

If you happen to be an easy sleep of pregnant women, you must be concerned about this issue: whether to take sleeping pills during pregnancy?
Pregnant women can eat sleeping pills it? Sleeping on the fetus have a very adverse impact. If the mother sleeping pills, drugs will pass through the placenta, exposing the fetus to direct absorption. The fetus has not been due to resistance to these drugs, so far the impact on maternal great.
If pregnant women while casually taking sedative Jing, taking 6 weeks in the birth of the baby, both in terms of mental or physical, will be dangerous. American medical profession has for this phenomenon made the following comparison: they will take a sedative for pregnant women give birth to deformed children by the number of pregnant women with and without taking the comparison was to find the former the latter is about 6 times. These abnormalities of children with symptoms of mental retardation, heart defects, hearing loss, joint disorders, bowel malformations.
Foreign scholars have also pointed out that if pregnant women in early pregnancy drug taking and depression, can also cause fetal malformation.
Sleeping pills will not only inhibit the fetal respiratory function, cause liver dysfunction, also causes an increase in red blood cells, causing jaundice. Therefore, pregnant women must pay attention to not use these drugs. And if the pregnant women in early pregnancy take sleeping pills and sedatives, can also cause congenital abnormalities, and to fetal brain cell metabolism malfunction. In short, try to avoid taking sleeping pills is extremely important.

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