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Today marks that im five weeks four days pregnate and i woke up with a really bad head cold what kind of medicin can i take thats not dangerous or harmful to the baby?
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Careful: No medicine is completely safe. Benadryl (diphenhydramine) has a history of being well tolerated.
Answered 6/24/2014
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