Can I use topical ointment during pregnancy?

Pregnant women need to be especially careful and should not touch many things. Pregnant women need adequate nutrition and try not to get sick, because medicines can have an impact on the fetus. Some things are particularly harmful to the fetus and may cause fetal malformations. Therefore, pregnant women during this period should not use any medication no matter how uncomfortable they feel. Many things will have instructions on them to use with caution for pregnant women. Ointments are also very harmful and can affect the development of the fetus.

Try not to use it. Most topical ointments contain hormones, which may have a certain impact on pregnant women and fetuses. When using ointment, be sure to check whether it is prohibited for pregnant women. If you are worried, you can go to a Chinese medicine doctor to prepare some ointments that can be used by pregnant women.

Generally speaking, topical medications for more than four months have little effect on babies, but there is no medicine that is 100% safe. Pregnant women with vaginitis can use clotrimazole vaginal insertion. If your ointment only contains clotrimazole, it should be usable. Suggestions: If the tinea cruris is not serious, you can temporarily not use medication. If it is very serious, then use the medication. Even if there is an impact on the fetus, it can be ignored.

Generally speaking, there will be more secretions after pregnancy, and the body's resistance will decrease after pregnancy. In addition, the sugar content in the perineum increases after pregnancy, which is prone to breeding fungi. It is best to go to the hospital for a check-up if you have vulvar itching, test the secretions to see what kind of infection is causing it, and then treat it symptomatically. Don't take medicine indiscriminately to avoid causing dysbacteriosis and forming drug resistance, which will bring difficulties to treatment.

Shaxuanjing: Its ingredient is clotrimazole, which is mostly used for fungal infections of the skin and mucous membranes, such as tinea corporis, tinea cruris, tinea manuum and pedis, etc. Animal experiments have found that it is toxic to embryos. For external use by lactating women, the drug ingredients can enter the breast milk. Although no obvious adverse reactions have been reported clinically, this drug should be used with caution for the health of the baby.

Bactroban Ointment (Mupirocin): It is an antibiotic ointment for external use, which is widely used in the treatment of skin infections. However, many experts believe that it is best not to use this drug during pregnancy. Because the polyethylene glycol in it will be absorbed and accumulated by the human body, it may cause a series of adverse reactions.

Acyclovir ointment: an antiviral medicine for external use. Antiviral drugs generally inhibit the replication of viral DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but they also have an inhibitory effect on the d-DNA polymerase in human cells, thereby affecting the replication of human DNA. Therefore, caution should be exercised when using various antiviral topical medications during pregnancy.

Glucocorticoids: This type of drug has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects and is widely used in the treatment of urticaria, eczema, drug rash, contact dermatitis, etc. However, large-area or long-term external use by pregnant women may cause adrenal cortex hypofunction in the fetus. The drug can also be absorbed through the skin and distributed into breast milk in small doses.