Consumer's Guide To Psychiatric Drugs gives you all you want to know about drugs. The book is written in a simple language, easy to read for people from non medical background. If you need the answers to your concerns about the use of drugs treatments, this book is for you. Order here.

While most women know they should be careful with any type of medication or drug while pregnant, there is still a quite a number who take the pregnancy hazards and ignore the future of their unborn child and do as they please with their body: smoking cigarettes, drinking large amounts of coffee or even alcohol.

The horrific side effects of illegal drugs are indisputable, so are cigarettes smoking and alcohol consume. Less is know about poisoning effects of legal drugs and medications on fetal growth and brain development so are unclear the dangers of over-the-counter medications and simple drugs.

The book Consumer's Guide To Psychiatric Drugs By John D. Preston, Mary C Talaga, R.Ph., M.A., John H O'Neal takes the confusion away and it should be a real guidence not only for women who suffer from different conditions but also for those who just have to deal with an everyday morning sickness.

Below you can read an excerpt from the above motioned book:

Much of the information about safe use of [medications] during pregnancy comes form studies done on animals. Although these studies are extensive, it cannot be assumed that the findings necessarily will apply to humans. Even if there are human studies available, they are often not conducted among large numbers of people, so applying the results to the general population must be done cautiously.

Therefore, it may be very difficult to your doctor to give you an absolute answer about whether a particular drug has been shown to be safe.

Some drugs are safer than others during pregnancy, while some other drugs should be avoided entirely. Still others are considered safe only during the second and third trimester and should not be given in the first trimester. Because the first trimester I the period when fetal cells are rapidly growing, dividing, and forming into organs, it is considered the time of highest risk for damage from medicines. However, organs, including the brain, continue to develop during the second and third trimesters and even after birth. Thus, some medicines could be potentially harmful to the baby throughout an entire pregnancy. Furthermore, these effects might be of such a nature that they might not be noticed until later in the child’s life; for example, behavioural problems would not be apparent during infancy.

Keep in mind that woman often do not realize they are pregnant until after conception has taken place and fetal development has begun. Therefore, before starting a new medication, it is important that your doctor is aware of any plans you may have for becoming pregnant in the near future. In this situation, you and your doctor might have to decide where this is the best time for you to have a baby, and take into account what would happen if you didn’t start particular medicine right now. Obviously, this is a very personal and complex issue, but it is faced frequently by women who wish to become pregnant and who also may require medications to treat their depression, for example.

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