drugs with two pregnancy classes

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Specializes in Wound Care.

One of our drugs this week is iron. It has a pregnancy class of B and C..what the heck does that mean?

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

Which form of iron? Iron dextran is labeled pregnancy class C. Iron sucrose is labeled pregnancy class B. They are both prescription only.

NSAIDS are pregnancy category C for the first two trimesters and pregnancy category D for the third trimester, one example of a drug that changes pregnancy categories.

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Specializes in Wound Care.

The drug is Ferrous Sulfate. Drug class B and C

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

This is what my book says about ferrous sulfate in the precautions section:

Pregnancy (B) (ferric gluconate complex), © (iron dextran, oral products)

Skidmore-Roth. Mosby's 2013 Nursing Drug Reference, 26th Edition. Mosby, 2013. <978-0-323-08642-4>

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