FDA Pregnancy Safety Index

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United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has used pregnancy safety index categories to determine the potential of a medicine to harm a pregnancy. The harm means birth defects or termination of pregnancy. FDA created this guideline in 1975 for pharmaceutical companies, and then revising the labeling method in 1997.

The categories are determined by the reliability of documentation from animal and human study; and the risk to benefit ratio of using this medicine in pregnancy (according to life-saving factor vs pregnancy factor). For your information too, these categories does not include any risks of breastfeeding-related risk.

Facts you need to know about Antibiotics (part 2): Considerations and Mechanisms

After we discuss some general facts about antibiotics, we will advance to the next facts about them before we discuss about each class of antibiotics.

Read this post first if you have not learned about antibiotics.


Fact # 4

What are the physician consider when giving antibiotic to his/her patient?

There are several factors to be considered.