Overactive thyroid gland medicine+pregnancy?!
Question: Overactive thyroid gland medicine+pregnancy!?
It has just been discovered,that I have overactive thyroid glands and got NEOMERCAZOLE Carbimazole pills to cure!. I am off of my contraceptive pills since just a month and planning a baby!.Forgot to ask, from doc!.if it is harmful for the baby(if I get pregnant during taking the medication) or not!. She asked me if I am pregnant though - which I am not-but what if I will be!?Wiil go back later, meantime I wanna know if anyone could help-much appreciated!.
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Answers:
Carbimazole crosses the placenta but, provided the mother's dose is within the standard range and her thyroid status is monitored; there is no evidence of neonatal thyroid abnormalities!. Studies have shown that the incidence of congenital malformations is greater in the children of mothers whose hyperthyroidism has remained untreated than in those who have been treated with carbimazole!.
However, very rare cases of congenital malformations have been observed following the use of carbimazole or its active metabolite methimazole during pregnancy!.
A causal relationship of these malformations, especially choanal atresia and aplasia cutis congenital (congential scalp defects), to transplacental exposure to carbimazole and methimazole cannot be excluded!.
Therefore the use of carbimazole in non-pregnant women of childbearing potential should be based on individual risk/benefit assessment!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
However, very rare cases of congenital malformations have been observed following the use of carbimazole or its active metabolite methimazole during pregnancy!.
A causal relationship of these malformations, especially choanal atresia and aplasia cutis congenital (congential scalp defects), to transplacental exposure to carbimazole and methimazole cannot be excluded!.
Therefore the use of carbimazole in non-pregnant women of childbearing potential should be based on individual risk/benefit assessment!.Www@Answer-Health@Com