Tablets from pain during pregnancy

Pregnancy is one of the happiest periods in a woman's life. However, this happy time can be overshadowed by minor ailments, manifested as painful sensations. Headache, toothache, stomach pain - all these conditions cause considerable discomfort to a woman. In addition, it is known that taking pills from pain during pregnancy is highly undesirable. So what do you do? How to rid yourself of any manifestations of pain? Let's talk about this in more detail.

Indications for the use of tablets from pain during pregnancy

Medicines for pregnancy are not recommended, it can be done only as a last resort. If the pain is insignificant and can pass by yourself, try not to take medication. In more difficult situations, consult a doctor, especially in the first and last trimester of gestation:

• permanent and significant headaches, which are gradually increasing and increasing;
• the headache does not cease even after rest and sleep;
• the pain is not scattered, but localized, right or left, in the anterior or posterior part of the head;
• In addition to the headache, there is another symptomatology - vision impairment, shooting and tenderness in the ears, verbal and motor disorders;
• changes in blood pressure, fever.

Toothache, regardless of its intensity, always requires an obligatory visit to the dentist, because the sick teeth and gums of the mother also negatively affect the baby.

Of course, the best option - when the teeth were treated even in the planning period of the child. However, situations are different, and visiting a dentist during pregnancy does not pose any risk to the fetus. It is recommended only to give up anesthesia whenever possible.

Pharmacodynamics

Virtually all tablets have a different mechanism of action on the body. For example, drugs with different spectrum of action can be used against pain: narcotic and non-narcotic analgesics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antispasmodics, tranquilizers, distractions, stimulants of the nervous system.

In particular, one of the most common drugs - paracetamol - acts on the reduction of bioelectric activity of the brain, facilitates painful sensations, soothes the nervous state of the nervous system.

But-spa refers to the group of antispasmodics, this drug has a relaxing effect on the smooth muscles of the cerebral vessels, relieves spasms caused by nervous tension, fear, changes in atmospheric pressure.

The action of ibuprofen is due to its analgesic, antiproliferative and decongestant properties.

Analgin and similar drugs (pentalgin, tempalgin, baralgin, kofalgin) has a pronounced analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effect.

Tablets Citramon and Ascofen are a combination of all known aspirin and caffeine, which complement each other, especially if the pain is associated with lowering blood pressure.

Tablets from pain in pregnancy based on nimesulide (alite, aponil, mesulide, nise, nimesil, nimegesic, nimes, pansulid, etc.) are quite effective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs of the methanesulfonanilide group.

Pharmacokinetics

The form of release of an analgesic drug largely determines its pharmacokinetics. For oral use, drugs in the form of tablets and powders can be used: tablets are preferred in this case, since they practically in an unchanged state enter the upper parts of the small intestine where the drug is absorbed into the blood. The degree of absorption with internal reception is quite high. The presence of food in the stomach slows down absorption, but does not affect its degree. Getting into the bloodstream, the active components of medicines are capable of acting for 6-8 hours, after which they are eliminated from the body. The maximum concentration of the active substance in the plasma is reached within 0.5-1.5 hours.

Analgesics are mainly metabolized in the liver and in the kidneys. About 50% of the urine is excreted from the body, up to 30% with feces. Only up to 3% of drugs can be withdrawn unchanged. None of the proposed modifications of drugs are not able to accumulate in the body.

Dosing and Administration

In cases of headache or toothache during pregnancy, in view of the undesirable reception of medicines, in extreme situations, any medications may be prescribed as directed by a specialist.

Receiving tablets from pain during pregnancy is carried out, starting with the minimum allowable dosage (1/2 tablets per one-time administration), after eating, with a sufficient amount of liquid. The maximum permissible one-time dosage is one tablet, not more. Further reception and choice of the drug must be agreed with the doctor.

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Tablets from a headache during pregnancy

Before taking a pill from a headache, be sure to consult a doctor. Admission of any medication during pregnancy is highly undesirable, especially in the first trimester, during which the embryo does not yet have its protection. All the medicines and chemicals you took during this period will necessarily reach your future child.

To begin with, try to calm the headache without resorting to taking medications. For example, you can just take a walk in the fresh air or ventilate the room. You can ask your husband to give you a head and neck massage.

If you suspect a pressure increase, you can drink a weak tea with mint. The lowered pressure stabilizes after a cup of coffee or strong tea.

A good result is applying to the forehead of a fresh cabbage leaf or just a towel soaked in cold water.

If the pain persists does not pass, and alternative means do not help, in extreme cases, have to take a pill, because tolerate pain is also not recommended.

Among the means of relative safety for a pregnant woman and a child is paracetamol and no-shpu. However, the advice of the doctor will not be superfluous.

Tablets from toothache during pregnancy

An unbearable toothache is a difficult test for any person. In pregnancy, the appearance of such pain can be associated with a deficiency of calcium or other minerals in the body.

If you have pain in the tooth, you need to contact the dentist, because if there is pain, then there is a problem: caries, gum inflammation, pulpitis, periodontitis, flux.

However, if you go to the doctor tomorrow, and now the pain just does not give you rest, you can try the following tools:

• rinse your teeth with a warm soda solution;
• rinse the sick tooth with sage or oak bark;
• you can moisten a cotton swab in a mint tincture and bite to a sick tooth.

In the first months of pregnancy, it is better not to take any pills. In extreme cases, after consulting with a doctor, you can take one of the painkillers. These drugs are ibuprofen, nimesulide, paracetamol, analgin, spasmalgin, but-shpa. Take pills secretly from a doctor is not recommended, this can only worsen the situation forecast.

Contraindications to the use of tablets against pain during pregnancy

The use of pills from pain during pregnancy is in itself a relative contraindication requiring medical advice. Any analgesics are not recommended for use during the period of gestation, especially in the first and last trimester.

Also, the possible contraindications for taking tablets from pain include:

• hypersensitivity (allergy) to any of the components of the drug;
• previously occurring hepatotoxic effects after taking medications;
• gastric ulcer or gastroduodenitis in the acute stage, ulcer relapses and signs of internal bleeding;
• severe forms of cardiac, hepatic and renal insufficiency;
• third trimester, prenatal and lactation periods;
• colds and flu-like symptoms.

Salicylic acid derivatives should not be taken with a tendency to bleeding, low blood clotting (hemophilia).

Preparations containing caffeine are not prescribed with a tendency to hypertension.

Women with low blood pressure should be cautious about antispasmodics.

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Side effects

Side effects of tablets from pain during pregnancy are due to their mechanism of action:

• antispasmodics can cause weakness, a feeling of dryness in the nasopharynx, gastrointestinal disorders;
• analogs of salicylic acid can cause nausea, tinnitus, deterioration of auditory and visual functions, diplopia, increased sweating, weakness, anxiety, allergic and anaphylactic reactions;
• drugs containing analgin, most often provoke changes in the picture of blood - this is the appearance of agranulocytosis, leukopenia. In rare cases, dizziness, a feeling of chills, feverish conditions;
• paracetamol is characterized by side effects in the form of anemia, hemoglobinemia, drowsiness, impaired pulse, allergic skin manifestations, psychomotor agitation, seizures;
• Nimesulide may cause dizziness, hypertension, dyspnea, flatulence, skin manifestations. Laboratory tests can mark an increase in the level of liver enzymes.

However, we recall that these side effects of analgesic drugs can develop only under conditions of constant and uncontrolled reception, which during pregnancy is completely unacceptable.

Overdose

An overdose of analgesics during pregnancy can happen only with unauthorized uncontrolled admission of medicines by a woman without consulting and prescribing a doctor. This situation is considered unacceptable and can have unpredictable consequences for the growing fetus, up to the termination of pregnancy or the development of defects and abnormalities in the unborn child.

Any intake of medications during pregnancy should be controlled and approved by the doctor, any other situation can be regarded as a crime in relation to his or her future child.

Interactions with other drugs

It is not recommended to take acetylsalicylic acid with antiplatelet drugs: this can provoke the appearance of bleeding, including internal bleeding. If simultaneous reception of such drugs can not be canceled, then their joint application should be carried out under close control of the coagulation indicators.

Storage conditions

Special storage conditions for analgesics are not required. The only requirement for all medicines - pills for pain during pregnancy should be out of reach of children.

Shelf life

Shelf life of drugs can reach three years with proper storage conditions. Do not use tablets and other dosage forms if the shelf life indicated on the package has already ended.

Tablets from pain during pregnancy are applicable only in situations when the pain becomes intolerable, and a visit to the doctor at the moment is impossible.

In any other case, try to do it safely in alternative ways, do not be nervous, do not succumb to stressful situations, eat fully and get enough sleep.