Is it ok if you take a medicine to cure headaches Because I take some medicine for headache but I didnt know that im pregnant at that time Is my baby ok?

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yes he is ok if you only take paracetamol and co-codamol. New Answer: Hello, personally I would not suggest you to take medicines for minor things like head ache. There are more than 110 possible reasons of head ache. You never know why you have headache. Medicines do nothing else than fooling your brain. The pain and the actual reason remains in your body, but the sensation of pain does not flow to your brain, so you dont feel pain. I am die hard strictly against taking medicines. I am 59 years old and the last medicine I took was maybe 15 years ago. I believe in the power of brain. When a medicine can fool your brain, why cant you make your brain fool itself. Try this a few times and you should have success soon. Whenever you have head ache, keep telling yourself you dont have pain, get indulged in something else, keep yourself busy in something. With some practice you wud master this art. I know the approach i suggested is not common and not many people would agree with it. This is something i have tried for years and mastered it. It is completely your choice to take the regular approach or alternative. Newer answer Your baby may or may not be ok depending on what week you are in during your pregnancy did you take the pain medication and what type of pain medication you took. If you had taken the medication during the first one or two weeks of pregnany, your child sould be ok considering that at this stage the fetus is resilient and has an all or none response, meaning the fetus will either continue living normally or spontaneously abort. After this period however, there is a stage of organogenesis, which as the name implies, us the period where organs are being created. At this time, the fetus is vulnerable. By the third week the heart starts to form and may be affected by common pain medications. If you took any NSAID (ibuprofen etc.) during the third trimester of pregnancy, you risk causing the prmature closure of the ductus arteriosus, a shunt that allows the transfer of blood from right to left (remember that in fetuses where the lungs are collapsed the right sided pressure is higher than the left compared to an adult where the pressure to the left is greater than the right). This premature closure of the ductus artetriosus produces extreme pressures to build up in the lungs which would cause pulmonary hypertension and could lead to cor pulmonale. Paracetmol however has been proven to be safe for pregnant women as it doesnt cause prmature closure of the DA.