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Balancing maternal need for pain control and fetal risk
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Balancing maternal need for pain control and fetal risk

Jennifer R Niebyl
Consultant, Vol.42(5), p.593
04/15/2002

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Abstract

My patient is a 30-year-old woman who has used metoclopramide for years for abdominal pain. Her gastroenterologist advised her to discontinue the medication because she is trying to become pregnant. No other drug controls the pain. Is it safe for her to continue taking metoclopramide?
Abdominal pain Adverse and side effects Drug therapy Metoclopramide

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