The article is advised by MSc. Đinh Thanh Hà - Gynecologist - Gynecology Department - Vinmec Nha Trang International Hospital.
To assist women’s reproduction, doctors may prescribe Duphaston after ovulation and fertilized days to assist the luteal phase, help the endometrium secrete, maintain your pregnancy, and also prevent miscarriage in the early trimesters. Can Duphastion be taken while pregnant?
1. The usages of Duphaston
Duphaston is the name of Dydrogesterone. Duphaston is a synthesized hormone like progesterone (a reproductive hormone in the human body). Specifically, Duphaston has the same activity as progesterone on the endometrium and assists the fetus. The usages of Duphaston are the following:
- Treats some syndromes that cause laking of progesterone in the body that leads to menstrual cycle disorders such as premenstrual syndrome, not ovulating, mamma pain, premenstrual stage, and breast benign.
- Using Duphaston to adjust low progesterone levels processes in women’s bodies and maintain a healthy body
- Duphaton also treats childless is caused by endometriosis and luteal phase defect.
- Taking Duphaston while pregnant in the luteal phase defect causes threatened or repeated abortion cases.
2. Can Duphaston be taken while pregnant?
Normally, medications that have Progesterone such as Duphaston help decrease uterine contractions, prevent miscarriage, and increase blood in the arteries and glycogen in the endometrium in women to maintain enough nutrients for the fetal, mucus plug-avoiding bacteria. Therefore, Duphaston can be taken while pregnant, especially in threatened abortion cases.
Does Duphaston affect the fetus? The usage of Duphaston is embryotrophic so it does not affect the fetus. However, the pharmacodynamics is individually different, for absolute safety, taking Duphaston while pregnant should have instructions from the doctor after assessing the pregnant woman’s health.
3. Some warnings when taking Duphastion
This is a medicine treatment for a lot of different situations related to producing progesterone mechanisms such as maintaining a healthy pregnancy, bleeding while pregnant, or a woman with a miscarriage or stillbirth history. Simultaneously, Duphaston also reduces cramps, severe menstrual cramps.
Unfortunately, Duphaston might cause some side effects like nausea, headache, stomach pain, jaundice và other symptoms on the dermat. Therefore, when taking Duphaston, patients should avoid the following:
- Be careful with patients who have severe hepatic dysfunction, do not prescribe Duphaston for pregnant women without threatening miscarriage signs.
- Patients or patients’ families who have mamma cancer, ductor carcinoma in situ, liver disease, or are allergic to Duphaston or any components in the medicine.
- Women with a thrombosis history, clot, or stroke should not take Daphaston.
- Duphaston should be used with the right dose cause if not it might harm the fetus and the woman’s health.
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