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My simple cold turned out to be a sinus and lung infection. dr put me on azithromycin and prednisone. delivering in 12 days will meds harm baby?

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Dr. Nikolaos Zacharias answered

Specializes in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Maybe you, not baby.: Why was Prednisone prescribed? Do you have asthma or allergic rhinitis? It is not typical to prescribe z-pack and steroids near term pregnancy for uri. Please seek maternal-fetal medicine consultation asap and notify the perinatal anesthesiologist that you may need stress-dose steroids in labor. Are you taking inhalers? They may help more than oral prednisone. Amoxicillin may also help.

Answered 6/30/2014

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