Педиатрическая фармакология (Feb 2010)

ISSUES OF FETUS DRUG SAFETY

  • A.V. Ostrovskaya,
  • S.A. Sher

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 25 – 28

Abstract

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The article is focused on the issue of fetus drug safety. Development of a child’s health depends both on hereditary information and environment factors. The reason for deviation from the process of normal prenatal development could be any xenobiotics, physical factors and some medications having a pathogenic effect during pregnancy on the embryo and fetus. Due to that, the physician’s preventive work based on the knowledge of embryogenesis processes and critical development periods. Key words: teratogenic action, medications, prenatal development, congenital malformation, newborns, children.(Pediatric Pharmacology. – 2010; 7(1):25-28)