{"id":8636,"date":"2016-04-28T07:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T07:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2016-04-28T07:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T07:39:06","slug":"yeast-infection-drug-could-cause-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/yeast-infection-drug-could-cause-miscarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeast Infection Drug Could Cause Miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7601\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg\" alt=\"FDA-sq_51\" width=\"171\" height=\"171\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning, recommending that doctors do not prescribe an oral yeast infection drug to pregnant women, or those actively trying to become pregnant, because the drug may increase risk of miscarriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The warning came after the release of results of a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bf3b41;\" href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2480487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Danish study<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that linked oral fluconazole (Diflucan), which treats yeast infections, to miscarriage. Currently, the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bf3b41;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Drugs\/DrugSafety\/ucm497482.htm?source=govdelivery&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FDA is urging caution<\/span><\/a>\u00a0until the agency can properly review the study results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oral fluconazole is used to treat yeast infections of the vaginal area, mouth and esophagus. It\u2019s also used to treat a fungal infection of the brain and spinal cord called cryptococcal meningitis, which usually affects people with weakened immune systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The FDA drug label for oral fluconazole indicates that data available from studies does not suggest an increased risk of pregnancy complications or developmental abnormalities when women are exposed to a single, 150-mg dose of oral fluconazole. Yet, high doses of the drug (400 to 800 mg\/day) taken by pregnant women for a longer period of time have resulted in birth abnormalities, according to the FDA safety alert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Danish study results were based on one or two doses of 150 mg.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warning came after the release of results of a Danish study that linked oral fluconazole (Diflucan), which treats yeast infections, to miscarriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",65,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",286,286,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",96,96,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FDA-sq_51.jpg",150,150,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/health\/medicine\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Medicine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}