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My partner has just found out she's 5 weeks pregnant and was given chloramphenicol ointment to apply to her eye. could this harm the unborn baby?
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Eye infection: Your partner's eye infection is the priority. Do you think the mother's infection would have no effect on the fetus? advise the prescribing physician that your partner is pregnant and he or she may or may not change the treatment course but the eye infection still has to be treated.
Answered 2/22/2015
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