Risk in the use of antibiotics during pregnancy.

Abstract

Antimicrobials are medications often used in the treatment of infections in pregnant women. During pregnancy physiological changes occur in women; the pharmacokinetic changes that occur during pregnancy may alter the pharmacological effects, and the possible teratogenic risk and toxicity of the medicinal products in the embryo and fetus must also be taken into account. The use of antibiotics during pregnancy is a frequent circumstance, which requires a correct knowledge of both the properties of the drug, as well as its indications, as well as the characteristics of the people to whom it is prescribed and the stages of gestation and lactation whose differential characteristics require special considerations.