Medical disclaimer
What this site can and cannot tell you.
Everything on Preg Med is general information published for a general audience. It is not medical advice, it is not a diagnosis, and it is not a treatment recommendation for any particular person.
No page here knows anything about you — your history, your medications, how your pregnancy is going, or what your clinicians have already told you. Those things change the answer. A midwife, doctor or pharmacist who has that information can advise you; a reference page cannot.
Medicines
Our medication pages describe what a product is and summarise what has been written about its use in pregnancy. They are not a decision about whether you should take it. Do not start, stop or change a medicine on the strength of anything you read here — ask a pharmacist or your maternity team, who can check it against your own circumstances.
Some pages in this archive still refer to the FDA pregnancy letter categories (A, B, C, D and X). That system was withdrawn in June 2015 and is not current guidance. Those pages carry a notice saying so.
Age of the content
This archive was written over a number of years and is being reviewed page by page. A page without a review note has not yet been checked against current guidance. Treat it as background reading, not as the last word.
External links
We link to public health bodies and published research. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for what they say or how they change.