Yesterday afternoon, a 24 year old girl came to the clinic depressed. She told me that she had been amenorrheic for six months after the abortion, and that she had seen many hospitals, taken herbs and progesterone and still hadn’t gotten her period. Now she is not getting her period and is worried that she will not get pregnant again. I asked: Why did you have an abortion? A: Because I accidentally took a few pills. Q: Did the doctor recommend you to have an abortion? A: No, I was worried that the baby would not be healthy. At this point, I can’t blame her too much for making such a hasty decision. But the consequences of this decision were too serious – the abortion caused damage to the endometrium and adhesions in the uterine cavity, and she had to undergo hysteroscopic surgery to correct the adhesions. It’s true that she couldn’t get pregnant without treatment, but with surgical treatment, I didn’t dare to be optimistic to tell her what the outcome would be. Many people unknowingly take pills in early pregnancy take chest x-rays and are exposed to toxic substances. So is it true that if you take medicine during pregnancy you can’t have the baby? Some people know they are pregnant and are determined not to take medication even when they are sick to protect their child, is this right? I’ll tell you, to determine the impact of external adverse stimuli on the embryo based on the following conditions: time to take drugs: if you have a normal menstrual cycle of 28 days a cycle. Then ovulation and fertilization on the 14th day of menstruation. Within two weeks of fertilization, follow the principle of “all or nothing”. What does that mean? It means that if the embryo is affected by a bad stimulus, it will die and miscarry. If the embryo survives, then the child is not affected at all. So it turns out that after taking the medication and taking the x-rays during this period, you don’t have to worry about the health of the fetus at all. After 12 weeks, the fetus is already formed and external factors will not cause fetal malformation. However, it does not mean that you can be exposed to harmful substances freely after 12 weeks. Smoking and drinking can have an effect on the fetus. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration classifies drugs according to their effects on the embryo as A, B, C, D and X. A and B are relatively safe. If you must use a drug during pregnancy try to choose a class A class B drug. These grading are conclusions that need to be drawn from a large number of animal and clinical trials. At present, there are many varieties of new drugs and many new drugs have not accumulated more clinical data. In addition, Chinese medicine and proprietary Chinese medicines claim to be free of side effects, but in fact, they have never been tested on animals and humans, and there is no data on this just isn’t really safe, so it is not recommended that pregnant women take Chinese medicine blindly, and even less recommended that Chinese medicine be used to protect the fetus. Drug dosage: There is a saying that “talking about toxicity without the dosage is a hooligan”. The adverse effects of drugs on the fetus are called embryotoxicity. Any drug needs a certain dose to work and side effects to occur, maybe each drug has a strong or weak toxicity, but there is a minimum toxic dose. Therefore, there is no need to give up the fetus if you take just one or two tablets of any class of drugs. Self-health: You should not abuse drugs after pregnancy, but you should not ignore your own health condition either. Don’t forget that apart from drugs, your health condition and the pathogen causing the disease itself affect the development of the fetus. If the mother is not healthy, how can she survive the pregnancy? The same viruses and bacteria that cause you to be sick can also affect your child. In a case not long ago, a pregnant woman who was 26 weeks pregnant with fever and abdominal pain was considered to be in preterm labor. The preterm labor was probably caused by an infection, and after 3 days of penicillin treatment, the fever did not improve, and the doctor suggested changing the antibiotics, which she signed and refused for fear of adverse effects on her child, and the final outcome was another three days and a miscarriage. Diseases not only endanger the fetus, but also the mother’s health. There is a well-known example: the actress Li Yuan Yuan, who bled during pregnancy and kept the baby on birth control, later found out that it was cervical cancer, but she refused treatment in order to have the baby and died of cervical cancer shortly after the baby was born. Cervical cancer should be a disease that can be detected early, treated early, and cured, but this kind of result still happened. What a tragic lesson this is. You can’t always pursue perfection in life, and the result of pursuing perfection may be no gain. That girl gave up her fetus because of a few pills and ended up with the possibility of lifelong sterility. That mother-to-be lost her baby as a result of refusing medication. Li Yuan Yuan ended up losing her life because she refused treatment. Perhaps with a compromise, they would both have had a happy family. For them there is no more maybe. But if we are accidentally exposed to drugs and radiation during pregnancy, make sure to tell your doctor when and what drugs you used and how much you used. Let your doctor give you an analysis of how much risk you are taking and make a prudent decision under the guidance of your doctor. Life is always about weighing and choosing in pursuit of maximum benefit.