Cetirizine Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Warnings
Cetirizine is also known as: All Day Allergy, All Day Allergy Children's, Aller-Tec, Aller-Tec Children's, Alleroff, Children's Allergy Relief, Children's Zyrtec, Equate Allergy Relief, PediaCare Children's 24-Hour Allergy, Zyrtec, Zyrtec Hives
Cetirizine Pregnancy Warnings
Animal models have failed to reveal evidence of teratogenicity and harmful effects on pregnancy, embryofetal development, parturition, and/or postnatal development. There are no controlled data in human pregnancy. AU TGA pregnancy category B2: Drugs which have been taken by only a limited number of pregnant women and women of childbearing age, without an increase in the frequency of malformation or other direct or indirect harmful effects on the human fetus having been observed. Studies in animals are inadequate or may be lacking, but available data show no evidence of an increased occurrence of fetal damage.
This drug should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefit outweighs the risk to the fetus. AU TGA pregnancy category: B2 US FDA pregnancy category: Not formally assigned to a pregnancy category.
Cetirizine Breastfeeding Warnings
Use with caution. -Some experts recommend: Use is not recommended. Excreted into human milk: Yes
Drug concentrations in breastmilk were approximately 25% to 90% of drug concentrations in plasma.
References for pregnancy information
- Cerner Multum, Inc. "Australian Product Information." O 0
- "Product Information. Zyrtec (cetirizine)." Pfizer US Pharmaceuticals, New York, NY.
- Cerner Multum, Inc. "UK Summary of Product Characteristics." O 0
References for breastfeeding information
- Cerner Multum, Inc. "Australian Product Information." O 0
- Cerner Multum, Inc. "UK Summary of Product Characteristics." O 0
- United States National Library of Medicine "Toxnet. Toxicology Data Network. Available from: URL: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT." ([cited 2013 -]):
- Department of Adolescent and Child Health and Development. UNICEF. World Health Organization "Breastfeeding and maternal medication: recommendations for drugs in the eleventh Who model list of essential drugs. Available from: URL: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2002/55732.pdf?ua=1" ([2003]):
- "Product Information. Zyrtec (cetirizine)." Pfizer US Pharmaceuticals, New York, NY.
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