Medication Use in Pregnancy, to Treat or Not to Treat

Pregnancy is a special physiological condition, where drugs treatment presents a special concern because of misinformation, or more often lack of information.
Many future "mothers" do not adhere to their prescriptions ,often total avoidance of treatment in pregnancy is not possible and may be dangerous (e.g asthma, epilepsy, hypertension). Also during pregnancy new medical problems can develop and old ones can be exacerbated (e.g. migraine headache) requiring pharmacological treatment.
It is a fact that certain drugs given during pregnancy may prove harmful to the unborn baby is one of the classical problems in clinical practice. The FDA classification of various drugs used in pregnancy (e.g. A,B,C,D,X) provides therapeutic guidelines for the clinicians ,in this presentation I will focus on various aspects related to drug use during pregnancy and lactation.