Pregnancy Journals Recalls Safety Shopping Sleep Site Map Shop. In my practice, Macrodantin has been a favorite for urinary tract infections in pregnancy. Although it's been known to rarely cause a serious anemia, this would not have a risk that would outweigh the benefit. The drug of choice for upper respiratory infections involving sinusitis, pharyngitis, or other non-viral infections is still penicillin.
Questions regarding dental care constantly crop up in pregnancy.
Nevertheless, if dental work must be done, even during the first trimester these drugs are fairly harmless. The narcotics, especially, are time-honored, as they've been around for a long time. Anesthetics containing adrenaline may make a patient jittery and create palpitations, especially with the normal changes in the heart that accompany pregnancy, but this is merely a symptomatic inconvenience in the absense of true heart valve pathology. All rights reserved.