Teratogenic Drugs can have a direct impact on the formation of the fetus and its growth inside mother’s womb. It can cause deformity in any part of the child’s body. The effect of the Teratogenic Drugs can also be evident much after the birth of the child. That is why Teratogenic Drugs are avoided from being administered during the time of pregnancy. In the drugs to cure several of the known diseases may have certain agents, having the property of Teratogenic Drugs. Doctors prescribe to stop the intake of such medicines during the period of pregnancy. In some cases doctors prescribe not to take such medicines, especially when the patient is planning to conceive.
The direct toxicity of these drugs can affect the health of the mother, father, fetus or all of them at the same time. The medicines with teratogenic effect can have metabolic toxicity, anti metabolic toxic effects, Pharmaco-dynamic actions, etc. Administration of these medicines can even impair the cardiovascular system and can alter the endocrine balance.
The actions of drugs with teratogenic effects have a congenital formation problem in human fetus. These kind of harmful agents are often present in the medicines for curing or preventing tumor. Their teratogenic effects even act as immunosuppressive and cytotoxic elements inside the body of the patient. Several of the antibiotic drugs can also have the effect of teratogenic drugs. During pregnancy women must refrain from taking such medicines. Certain tooth problems have been found to develop among the children whose mothers have been treated with such anti-biotics during pregnancy.
The effect of the so called teratonic drugs may vary from person to person. Some of those have been found to be absolutely harmless after administering it to the patient. Anti epileptic drugs can have a strong effect of teratonic agents. Vasopression and Catecholamines have teratonic effect on animals, but those are almost harmless while consumed by man. The teratonic medicines can cause paralytic effects on the fetus, or even death. If the mother consumes Hexamethonuium drugs, the child can have such problems of death or paralysis. The mother administered with narcotic drugs often has children with the symptoms of fatal withdrawal.
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This page discusses on certain aspects of the ill effects of teratonic medicines. The interesting fact about some of the teratonic drugs is that after administering it does not penetrate to the body of the child. In these cases the fetus is saved from certain deformities and other diseases caused by the use of teratonic medicines.
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