Ep 9 Dr Lani Prideaux on Pregnancy in IBD

Talking Gut with Dr Jim Kantidakis

In this episode we discussed

- Female and Male fertility in IBD

-Fears about medication effect on pregnancy

-Pre-conception Care

-When should a potential mother to be contact their

Gastroenterologist if planning to get pregnant?

- When should they not consider trying to get pregnant.

- What effect does active disease have on the unborn baby/foetus?

- What is the risk of flare during pregnancy ? and how this differs in

Ulcerative Colitis versus Crohns Disease

- At what stages of the pregnancy is an unborn child most at risk

and a whole lot more.

I hope you find this talk interesting and most of all, helpful.

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