Compilation of The Pulse Blog Posts on COVID-19 Therapies and Pregnancy
The COVID-19 Dexamethasone Story and its Significance for Pregnancy
The story of emerging treatments for COVID-19 has been confusing for various reasons. First, it is confusing because infection with SARS-CoV2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) produces a range of disease severity in different people, from a complete lack of symptoms on one end of...
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Immunotherapy and Covid-19: Implications for Pregnancy
Immunotherapy is a form of treatment, most commonly used against cancer, that targets the body’s immune system. This form of therapy suppresses the immune system...
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Remdesivir, COVID-19, and Pregnancy
Are there any medications that pregnant women can take if they become infected with COVID-19? As of mid-April, 2020, the answer is maybe. In the weeks before April, there was...
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COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Should Pregnant Women Be Included?
Scientists and clinicians are working as fast as they can to come up with drug treatments and vaccines that will work against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus...
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ARBs and ACE inhibitors: Implications for COVID-19 and Pregnancy
If you are taking blood pressure medication belonging to a category called ARBs, or to a category called ACE inhibitors, then you will find that these drugs present issues...
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All About Oxygen in Pregnancy and COVID-19
You know that oxygen is a gas that we must breathe all the time to stay alive, but what is the story of oxygen in connection with pregnancy and with the COVID-19 ...
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Mechanical Ventilation, COVID-19, and Pregnancy
In the previous post on oxygen and pregnancy, we discussed how oxygen enters the body through the lungs, and left off with the idea that there are different...
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Ivermectin, Covid-19 and Pregnancy
Ivermectin is an FDA-approved drug that is used to treat parasitic infections. It can be administered orally or applied topically to treat scabies, lice infestation and bedbug infestation...
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Take Advice Only from Your Doctor Regarding Medication when You Are Pregnant or Concerned About COVID-19
From US history class, you may remember William Henry Harrison for being the first candidate from the Whig Party to be elected to the presidency of the...
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The Genetic Code, Remdesivir, and COVID-19: A Pregnancy Perspective
Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for some time, in all likelihood you are quite aware that the disease-causing agent, SARS-CoV2, is a virus, even if you are not...
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BCG as a Possible Treatment for COVID-19: Will Pregnant Women be Eligible?
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a vaccine that is used to prevent tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is caused by a hardy bacterium. The disease...
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Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), Pregnancy, and COVID-19
How do we get the body to fight off a potentially deadly virus? There are three basic strategies. One is that you can use medicines that interfere with the virus’s ability to infect ...
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Ivermectin, Pregnancy & COVID-19: Promising but Don’t Take Your Pet’s Parasite Medicine
Ivermectin— you may have heard of it, either because you have given it to your pet to treat a parasitic worm, or if you are familiar with an international health problem called...
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COVID-19 and Fever During Pregnancy – Treatment Options
According to a UK study, fever is the most frequent symptom of mild and moderate COVID-19. Fever or pyrexia is an immune response. When a harmful pathogen is introduced...
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COVID-19 Jab: Should You Take Anti-Pain, Anti-Fever Medication While Pregnant?
Writing this during the period between my first and second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, hearing from friends and colleagues about their reactions...
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Hydroxychloroquine as Possible Treatment for COVID-19: Safe During Pregnancy?
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about using a drug called hydroxychloroquine in the fight against COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine is not new. It’s been around since the mid-20th...
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Vitamin D, COVID-19, and Pregnancy: New Findings
Recently, on The Pulse, there was a nice review of vitamin D , explaining the importance of getting adequate vitamin D during pregnancy and wrapping up with the caveat that...
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Azithromycin, COVID-19 and Pregnancy
Azithromycin is a broad spectrum antibiotic meaning it can kill bacteria from different classes. It belongs to a group of antibiotics known as macrolides which are commonly used to treat...
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Convalescent Plasma, COVID-19 and Pregnancy
Convalescent plasma is a form of experimental treatment for COVID-19 that was first used in Wuhan, China. It involves the transfusion of plasma, a blood product, from a patient...
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The Possible Role of Zinc against Covid-19 and How Pregnant Women Can Make the Most of It
Zinc is an element that occurs naturally in nature. It is an essential nutrient for humans because our bodies don’t synthesize it. It plays a role in vital processes in the human...
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COVID-19 and Pregnancy: Does Vitamin D Help?
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory disease that is believed to have originated from Wuhan, China. I am sure you’ve heard of it by now as it is currently...
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COVID-19 Therapeutics in Pregnancy and Lactation: Corticosteroids
Corticosteroids consist of steroid hormones, either produced endogenously (in the body) in the adrenal cortex (the outer layer of the adrenal glands), or made synthetically...
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