| Pregnancy is special physiological condition where drug treatment presents a special concern: A unique period in a woman’s life. Many changes are happening to her body that may affect the pharmacology of medications. Pregnancy is associated with a wide range of pharmacokinetic and physiological changes. Those changes quite often present physiological complications during pregnancy. Apart from this, pregnant women also present with other concurrent medical illness and chronic diseases. The study the prevalence of morbidities and drug prescribing pattern among pregnant women in Gynecology and Obstetrics. The study was a prospective observational study conducted in the Karuna Medical College and Hospital, Chittur, Palakkad in the duration of six months (February 2021 to July 2021). A total of 261 cases were included from Inpatients/Outpatients attending the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department. Self designed data entry form was used to collect data related to the patient’s demographics, medical history, medication history, gravida, trimesters, morbidities present and the medications prescribed. The age wise distribution reveals that 129 (49.42%) patients were of the age group 21-25 which showed that most of the women that came with pregnancy to the hospital were in their 20s. A total 110 patients (42.14%) were having their primi Gravida (G1) and highest number of patients – 91 patients (34.86%) were in their third trimester. Prevalance of morbidities: The most commonly seen morbidities included Vomiting (16.88%), Hypothyroidism (13.63%), Gestational DM (4.54%), Preeclampsia (4.54%), UTI (7.14%), Anaemia (4.54%) and Lower abdominal pain (7.79%). The most commonly prescribed drugs included Folic acid (93.1%), Calcium (90%) and Iron tablets (85.82%). The present study gives collective information of morbidities prevailing during pregnancy, drug usage, evaluating pattern of prescribing drugs which would add to the database about safe medication in pregnancyddd |
