WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: Allegra and Pregnancy

Re: Allegra and Pregnancy

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:37:41 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Dan wrote: >
>My wife became pregnant 7 weeks ago. For the first 5 weeks she did not
>take her Allegra. We looked at prescription warnings on the bottle and
>did not see one concerning pregancy except ask your Doctor. We then
>asked our OB whether my wife could take it and she said she wasn't
>familiar with it, but indicated its probably just an antihistimine and
>so go ahead and take it. My wife took normal dosage the next day and
>began miscarrying within 24 hours. I have done some research since and
>found that rats had post implantation problems and that Allegra is
>basically contra-indicated with pregnancy.

At this point there is insufficient data on Allegra to say anything. I have many patients who, against medical advice, take Allegra because "it's the ony thing that works" and haven't had a problem but i still don't recommend it. I have not seen anything whihc says it's "contraindicated" yet, just not indicated (2 different things). e.g. Thalidomide is contraindicated.

>Why did not my wifes OB know
>this? She is smart and professional. Is the general medical community
>familiar with Allegra and its side effects and my experience was a fluke

May very well have been. I find it hard to believe that it would do this routinely within 24 hours. We would have heard about it for sure.

>or is some further study needed of actual use of Allegra during
>pregnancy by the medical establishment and education of current
>practitioners.
>

Until cleared for pregnancy, study is always necessary. The company that makes Allegra must have a registry on this. Why not call them and ask for their present stats?

>--
>Daniel J. Martin
>

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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