Antibiotics and conception

All questions about antibiotics and pregnancy planning

The world is not ideal, so modern man is constantly in wait for hundreds, thousands of pathogenic bacteria everywhere. And if once their attacks often ended in failure, death, then with the advent of penicillin everything changed. Today, even the most severe diseases recede under the influence of antibiotics. However, the latter are not at all so harmless.

With all its advantages, this group of drugs has a number of side effects that are always undesirable, but especially at the stage of pregnancy planning. Simply because they are capable of causing serious changes in the body, which cannot but affect the growth and development of the fetus. We'll talk about them today. So, antibiotics and pregnancy planning: everything expectant parents need to know.

What are the dangers of antibiotics?

The drugs suppress pathogenic flora that the human immune system cannot cope with. The course of treatment is 5-7 or more days, during which the body gets rid of not only pathogenic microbes, but also beneficial inhabitants of the human body.

After the death of the beneficial intestinal microflora, an acid-base imbalance occurs, leading to the development of dysbiosis. All mucous membranes remain unprotected, susceptible to fungal and other types of infections.

There is a weakening of the immune system, so chronic processes that have not shown themselves for a long time can be activated. The emergence of new diseases cannot be ruled out.

Antibiotics make it difficult for the liver to function by inhibiting the accumulation of glycogen. The body is not properly cleansed of toxins; a process of accumulation of toxins and other human waste products hazardous to health occurs.

Antibiotics: let's get acquainted

In order to understand the seriousness of the situation, you just need to understand what the substances discovered in 1929 by Alexander Fleming are. In fact, these are the results of the vital activity of microorganisms that are endowed with amazing properties - to suppress the growth and reproduction of pathogenic bacteria, while practically not affecting healthy cells. Ideally.

In practice, they often have a negative effect on the entire body, sometimes accumulating in it. That is why, after taking antibiotics, doctors do not recommend that a woman become pregnant for a certain time. Moreover, in this way, they not only play it safe, but also minimize the risk of developing serious pathologies.

How do antibiotics affect the health of future parents? First of all, they affect the condition of the germ cells. As a result, a woman who took them immediately before conception may have a miscarriage. Most often this happens due to the penetration of these substances through the placenta to the fetus at the very moment when the formation of all its organs and systems occurs, and causing malfunctions.

A man who took antibiotics during the planning stage also needs to be careful. They can reduce sperm motility or simply increase the number of pathologically altered germ cells in his body. Needless to say, if conception occurs with the help of one of them, serious problems with the health of the unborn baby, or even a miscarriage, cannot be avoided.

By the way, the group of drugs used for treatment is also important here. Judge for yourself:

Tetracyclines. These antibiotics are known for their side effects, affecting the liver, teeth and musculoskeletal system of the unborn fetus.
Aminoglycosides. These substances, prescribed to a man or woman at the stage of pregnancy planning, can lead to the development of congenital deafness in the child. Simply because they negatively affect the formation of the hearing aid.
Fluoroquinolones. They affect the growth of bones and joints.
Sulfonamides. The consequences of taking these antibiotics before conception are dire: they affect the cardiovascular and nervous systems of the fetus, causing serious pathologies or, even worse, its death.
Dioxidine. Prohibited due to detected mutagenic and toxic effects on the fetus in animals.
Chloramphenicol. It provokes disruptions in the process of fetal cell division and inhibits its bone marrow.
Biseptol. Leads to the development of heart defects, congenital deformities, and slows down the growth of the embryo.

Antibiotics during pregnancy

During pregnancy, you should not self-medicate at all, much less prescribe antibiotics. The doctor will choose the least dangerous treatment option. But in severe cases, you cannot do without taking antibiotics. These are acute and life-threatening infections for mother and child: infectious diseases of the genitourinary system, ENT infections, some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and kidneys.

In this case, medical practice has a rich and sad experience of using certain drugs. These antibiotics should never be used during pregnancy:

antibiotics of the tetracycline group - “attack” the child’s liver and musculoskeletal system, leading to severe damage to tooth enamel;
sulfonamides – cause problems in the cardiovascular and nervous systems; drugs in this group freely pass through the placenta and quickly enter the child’s body;
aminoglycosides - affect the hearing system, as a result, children are often born with congenital deafness;
fluoroquinolones - accumulate in bones and affect joints.

But there are also drugs that are relatively safe for children:

First of all, these are antibiotics of the penicillin group and their synthetic analogues - aminopenicillins. They are considered the safest for the fetus, since they do not affect its development, although they freely penetrate the placenta. Penicillins are broad-spectrum antibiotics; they are prescribed for upper respiratory tract infections, purulent processes and some bacteriological infections;
Cephalosporins (cefazolin, cefepime, suprax and others) are also used quite widely and are prescribed for penicillin-resistant infections. They are considered safe when prescribed strictly according to indications, so you should not self-medicate;
Macrolides (erythromycin, clarithromycin) are general-spectrum antibiotics and are relatively safe during pregnancy;
Carbapenems are used in difficult cases, with acute systemic infection. No studies have been conducted on humans, but animal experiments and clinical practice indicate their safety;
Monobactams (aztreonam) are also strong antibiotics with a narrow spectrum of action, but relatively low-risk for the fetus.

List of antibiotics that have been tested to some extent for pregnant women:

How much to wait

Antibiotics accumulate in the body, negatively affect it, and can cause serious health problems. Does this mean that the treatment they carried out puts an end to future motherhood? Doctors say no. They just force it to be put aside.

In other words, after a course of antibiotics, you need to give the body time to recover. At least 28 - 35 days, which lasts the female menstrual cycle. Meanwhile, most experts still advise waiting 2–3 months to make sure that all traces of harmful substances are removed and nothing threatens the unborn baby.

When can you try to get pregnant?

A woman has a limited number of eggs - the number is laid at birth and this causes a certain kind of problem. Antibiotics always have a negative effect on the structure of those preparing for the ovulation process, which is why doctors set a limit of 3 months. Just so that a defective or damaged egg does not become fertilized. In addition to the egg, antibiotics also affect the endometrium, which is necessary for fixing the fertilized egg in the uterus. If its integrity is compromised, the active substances accumulated in the body will not allow the embryo to attach normally inside, causing a non-developing pregnancy, delayed fetal development or miscarriage.

IMPORTANT! Only a doctor can act as the main assistant and adviser in this matter! If you are already taking any antibacterial drugs, you should not hide this.

Are antibiotics always harmful?

You can confidently follow advice and instructions only in ideal situations. However, it often happens that antibiotic treatment is carried out after conception or immediately before it. Simply because the woman has no idea about the latter yet. Should I panic in this case or should I just wait?

Doctors say that the group of prescribed antibiotics decides everything here. The fact is that among them there are those that are allowed during pregnancy. These include:

Penicillin. Together with its analogues, it is harmless to the unborn fetus. Even though it is capable of passing through the placenta. After all, as a result, with the onset of conception, the kidneys excrete it at an accelerated pace.
Erythromycin, rovamycin, vilprafen. They are capable of reaching the fetus in low concentrations, but are not capable of causing congenital developmental anomalies in the fetus.
Cephalosporins. They pass through the placenta, but do not harm the embryo.

Is it possible to take antibiotics of other groups after conception? It all depends on the severity of the disease and the duration of pregnancy. In the end, drugs that are acceptable in extreme cases, when the harm from them is less than the harm of the disease itself, have not been canceled. This:

Azithromycin. Undesirable, but possible, especially if a chlamydial infection is detected in the mother, which can affect the development of the fetus.
Gentamicin. It is used in strictly calculated dosages. Any violations can lead to deafness in the child.
Nitrofurantoin. In the early stages, this antibiotic is prohibited, but in the second trimester it can be used successfully.

What to do if other antibiotics were taken? Wait. If there is no miscarriage during the first weeks, most likely the fetus will grow and develop without pathologies.

How do antibiotics affect the fetus?

Numerous studies in the field of obstetrics have shown that antibacterial therapy has an extremely negative effect not only on the reproductive systems of both parents, but also on the unborn child.

Scientists have found that this pharmaceutical group of drugs does not in any way affect the hereditary or genetic apparatus, but has an embryotoxic effect, leading to kidney damage, disturbances in the development of the auditory nerve or improper formation of dental tissues.
In the early stages of pregnancy, antibiotics cannot be taken; they are prescribed only in particularly difficult cases, when taking them is the only way to prevent the development of dangerous complications.
Antibacterial drugs such as Amoxiclav, Amoxicillin, Ampicillin and other penicillins can be prescribed to pregnant women with extreme caution. These antibiotics certainly will not cause fetal anomalies, but they are not effective enough.
Also, in case of urgent need, it is possible to prescribe cefazolin antibacterial agents such as Cefazolin, Ceftriaxone, etc. They are used in severe pneumonic forms, when preserving the health and life of the mother is higher than the child.

After the fifth month, the range of antibacterial drugs acceptable for use by pregnant women expands significantly, but only a doctor should prescribe them. Biseptol and Dioxidin, Levomycetin or Furamag, Furagin and Ersefuril, Ciprolet and Ciprofloxacin, Doxycycline, Nolitsin and Tetracycline are considered especially dangerous for the fetus at all stages after fertilization and even before it. If the patient is prescribed a prohibited antibiotic during pregnancy, then in the first weeks of pregnancy this can lead to spontaneous abortion or fetal death.

Antibiotics when planning pregnancy

When planning a long-awaited pregnancy, a woman carefully prepares and is examined, because everyone knows that in order for a pregnancy to develop normally, a healthy body is necessary, and then the likelihood of having a healthy baby is much higher. But many expectant mothers ask themselves this question: planning a pregnancy and taking antibiotics.

After all, almost everyone knows that antibiotics in our modern world are almost always prescribed when an infectious disease is detected, and if so, then how does taking antibiotics affect further pregnancy.

Why are antibiotics prescribed?

It is worth saying why doctors prescribe antibiotics when planning pregnancy. Before conceiving a child, a woman undergoes examination not only by a gynecologist but also by other specialists in order to exclude any somatic disease.

This is done to ensure that there is no exacerbation during pregnancy, which can negatively affect the development of the fetus. After all, almost every doctor advises that before planning a pregnancy, it is necessary to treat all chronic diseases. But we don’t pay enough attention to this: does taking an antibiotic affect a future pregnancy?

How safe are antibiotics?

Antibiotics are substances that can stop the growth and development of bacteria and other microorganisms. There are several groups of antibiotics, for example: tetracyclines, aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, sulfonamides and others. Their intake has a detrimental effect not only on pathogenic microorganisms, but also on the entire body as a whole.

Long-term use of antibiotics can cause dysbiosis, because these drugs also affect the beneficial microflora that inhabits our entire body. And most importantly, antibiotics negatively affect the condition of germ cells. All this significantly weakens the immune system of a woman’s body, this is what is negative and can even affect conception itself.

If a woman took a course of antibiotics on the eve of conception, then the risk of early miscarriage is very high, because it is at this time that all systems and organs of the fetus are formed, and the negative impact of these drugs can cause some kind of pathology.

Planning pregnancy after antibiotics is necessary no earlier than three months after the end of the course, because these drugs are not immediately eliminated, but accumulate in the body for some time.

Antibiotics and men's health

Antibiotics can not only negatively affect female reproductive cells, but also male ones. Antibiotics and pregnancy planning in men are an equally pressing topic, because in order for pregnancy to proceed safely, not only a healthy woman’s body is needed, but also a man’s. If a man took antibiotics, then they could negatively affect sperm - the number of pathologically altered sperm in the semen increases and when one of them is fertilized, the risk of congenital pathologies increases.

The effect of antibiotics on conception

It's worth noting that antibiotics can interfere with your ability to conceive because they suppress ovulation and prevent the egg from maturing. They can also cause vaginal dysbiosis, in which the composition of the mucus is disrupted, resulting in difficulties in the movement of the sperm to the egg. Therefore, the egg and sperm are the first to be affected when taking antibiotics.

It is very important to plan conception correctly. If a married couple is planning a pregnancy, before conception it is necessary to refrain from taking antibiotics for 2-3 months, since these drugs negatively affect the development of the embryo and tend to accumulate in the body. This happens because antibiotics penetrate into the blood and affect the germ cells, resulting in an increase in the number of pathologically altered sperm, one of which can fertilize the egg.

When planning pregnancy, it is worth considering that different groups of antibiotics have their own elimination period from the body.

Antibiotics accumulated in the mother’s body even before the conception of the child penetrate the placenta and negatively affect the fetus. As a result of this, it may happen that the pregnant woman’s body rejects the fetus and a miscarriage occurs. Often spontaneous abortion occurs precisely for the reasons that fertilization occurred with pathologically altered sperm, in which case bearing a child becomes almost impossible.

Therefore, it is very important that after taking these medications the body is completely cleansed before pregnancy occurs.

To prevent pregnancy after taking antibiotics, it is necessary to use various methods of contraception, and immediately before conception, consult a doctor and undergo an examination and pass all the necessary tests.

Rules for taking antibiotics

Antibiotics are sometimes prescribed by doctors during pregnancy planning, and every woman needs to know some rules for taking these drugs:

taking antibiotics for ARVI and influenza is not advisable, because the causative agents of these diseases are not bacteria, which are affected by antibiotics, but viruses;
Antibiotics can be started to be used only after undergoing sensitivity tests in order to determine exactly which pathogen;
If you start using antibiotics, you must complete the full course of treatment, even if the symptoms of the disease have disappeared.

Recovery after antibiotics

Planning pregnancy after taking antibiotics begins with rehabilitation and strengthening of the body. It is necessary to help the body get rid of the effects of antibiotics as soon as possible. For the female body, this is a little more complicated, because the eggs are laid from birth in a girl and are subject to the negative influence of the environment throughout her life, unlike male cells, which are renewed every 2-3 months.

First, it is necessary to restore normal microflora in the body, especially in the intestines. To do this, it is recommended to introduce a large amount of fermented milk products (kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese) into the diet.

To remove toxins from the body, you can use a course of antioxidants. Instead of pharmacological agents, you can also use natural antioxidants, such as:

And of course, we must not forget about strengthening the immune system.

A woman should begin planning pregnancy after antibiotics after at least one menstrual cycle, but sometimes it happens that treatment with antibiotics occurs after conception, and the woman naturally has no idea about it. Then the question arises, what to do? First, you need to contact your doctor and tell them which antibiotic you used, because it is very important which group it belongs to. Among them there are those that are allowed during pregnancy, and even at short notice.

In conclusion, we can conclude that when planning a pregnancy, antibiotics are prescribed to a woman only by a doctor, and in cases where there is an infectious disease, the causative agent of which is a bacterium. After taking it, a woman or man must refrain from unprotected sex; it is best to use condoms for a couple of months, and then you will be sure that the use of antibiotics will not affect the health of the unborn child.

Antibiotics before conception

If you were treated with antibiotics before pregnancy, the risks of complications for the child are as great as when taking them in the early stages - provided that at the time of conception the antibiotics are still present in the body. The period of elimination of antibiotics ranges from several hours to several days and even months (in cases of highly specialized strong antibiotics). Therefore, when planning a pregnancy, you should take into account the time factor and finish treatment long before conception.

The vast majority of antibiotics cannot affect the child on the father's side, contrary to popular belief. Drugs in this group have a negative effect on the quality and quantity of sperm, but taking antibiotics by the expectant father does not pose a danger to the child. Although among antibiotics there are dangerous exceptions that affect the gene apparatus embedded in the sperm. Therefore, it is safer to coordinate the treatment of the future father with a doctor.

Do I need to recover from medications?

There are situations when you cannot do without serious medications. But is it possible to combine taking antibiotics and planning a pregnancy? After all, these drugs are unsafe. Vilprafen, Amoxiclav, Sumamed and other similar drugs should be taken only as prescribed by a doctor. Uncontrolled self-medication is always unacceptable, not only before pregnancy.

How do these medications affect the female body:

The load on the liver and gastrointestinal tract increases.
Dysbacteriosis occurs, that is, an imbalance of the intestinal microflora and reproductive organs. “Beneficial” bacteria die, and their place is taken by pathogenic or opportunistic bacteria. For women, the most common manifestation of dysbiosis is thrush (candidiasis).
Immunity decreases;
Taking any antibiotics (including Amoxiclav) before conception negatively affects the egg. This means that future children may suffer.

If the husband takes the drugs, this is also a serious obstacle to normal conception. They negatively affect sperm motility and quality. Antibiotics before conception are a serious risk factor.

How to prepare the body for pregnancy after antibiotics?

A specialist will definitely give you initial recommendations. It is important to restore the body’s natural microflora and immunity. Most likely, you will need to take a microflora test.

Adjust your diet. Increase the amount of fermented milk products - yogurt, kefir, fresh yoghurt - they help the fastest. Eat more fresh herbs (especially parsley and dill), plums, figs, and nuts.
Take antioxidants recommended by your doctor. These can be vitamin complexes (with a high content of citric and ascorbic acid), food additives (including not only the above acids, but also pectin). Almonds, hazelnuts, cocoa and walnuts are also high in antioxidants, so include them in your daily diet.
Traditional medicine also helps in this situation. At the pharmacy you can purchase and prepare preparations of St. John's wort, tansy or sage. Brew 250 ml of boiling water with half a teaspoon of herbs, let it brew for 2-3 hours, drink between meals several times a day. It is enough to take 2-3 sips. A body cleansing course using honey and tea vinegar has a good effect. A teaspoon of both should be diluted in a glass of warm boiled water and drunk in the morning, 10-15 minutes before breakfast. Sour drinks are useful: tea with lemon, rosehip decoction, cranberry juice without sugar or other sweeteners, linden tea. Before going to bed, drink a glass of natural yogurt or kefir.

How long to delay conception

It is important to talk to your doctor about planning a pregnancy after taking antibiotics. He should take into account what you were treated for, what antibiotics you took before pregnancy, how much time has passed since the course. Only a physician and an obstetrician-gynecologist can answer the question of how much your health has suffered and how long it will take to get pregnant.

But there are general recommendations. Doctors usually recommend planning a pregnancy at least three months after taking antibiotics. This rule also works for men. Three months is enough to remove the antibiotic from the body and restore all functions. All this time you need to protect yourself with barrier methods (for example, a condom).

First you need to help your body get rid of the effects of taking medications. The doctor will prescribe restorative medications, for example, vitamins, probiotics, antioxidants. The main goal of this therapy is to restore the body’s immune system and microflora.

After antibiotics, you can restore your health with simple products. For example, it is useful to drink kefir, cottage cheese, and yogurt. Natural antioxidants that are advisable to consume before planning pregnancy after taking antibiotics: dill, parsley, walnuts, hazelnuts, plums, figs. This menu is useful for both men and women. In three months you will feel completely healthy and full of energy. And you can plan a pregnancy after taking the pills.

Bottom line

And at the end of the publication, let’s summarize:

Antibiotics have a negative effect on the body of future parents, so before planning a pregnancy it is necessary to allow the body to recover. It is especially important not to take antibiotics before IVF.
How long it takes to become pregnant after antimicrobial therapy depends on the severity of the disease, the drug group and the individual characteristics of the body of both partners. In general, doctors strongly recommend planning to conceive a child at least 3 months after completion of treatment.
The attitude of future parents towards preparing for pregnancy determines what kind of health the future child will be endowed with.

Share in the comments when did you start preparing for pregnancy after taking antibacterial medications?

Got pregnant with an antibiotic: is it dangerous?

If the husband takes antibiotics, there is a risk that the sperm will lose normal motility and become defective due to the medications. Even the relatively safe Amoxiclav can reduce the quantity and quality of sperm. This means that male fertility (ability to conceive) decreases. A man who takes an antibiotic is unlikely to be able to become a father for some time.

But if the wife does become pregnant, there are two possible scenarios. If damaged germ cells were involved in the conception, then most likely a miscarriage will occur in the early stages. If the fetus develops normally, then the child has every chance of being born healthy.

It happens that a woman took antibiotics and unexpectedly became pregnant. We asked Alexey Suvorov, a doctor and obstetrician-gynecologist with 20 years of experience, to comment on this ambiguous situation:

“Taking strong and toxic medications with an antibacterial effect in the first weeks of gestation is a significant risk factor for the embryo,” says the doctor. —An antibiotic can cause an embryolethal or teratogenic effect. In the first case there will be a frozen pregnancy and early spontaneous abortion, in the second there will be severe congenital pathology in the fetus.”

Experts say that the most dangerous times are:

implantation period (5-7 days after fertilization);
period of placentation and organogenesis (3-12 weeks of gestation).

If you took antibiotics at other times, there is a good chance that the fetus was not harmed.

Taking antibiotics (even if it is approved Amoxiclav) during and after conception can cause the death of the embryo or the formation of gross developmental abnormalities in the fetus. Therefore, if you could have conceived and suddenly become ill, you should, together with your doctor, choose alternative treatment methods that will not affect the fetus. For example, your doctor may allow you to take certain herbal medications. If health problems arise before ovulation, start using protection. First you need to be cured and only then plan a pregnancy.

If a woman becomes pregnant while taking antibiotics, she urgently needs to consult a doctor for advice. This does not mean at all that the woman will be sent to terminate the pregnancy. But it is necessary to undergo examination.

How is the planning process affected?

It is not recommended to plan pregnancy during treatment with antibacterial drugs. This can lead to serious complications. Often, the use of antibiotics leads to disruption of the internal microflora of the vagina. As a result, difficulties arise in moving the sperm to the egg.

Important! At the time of conception, the future father must also be healthy. If a man took antibiotics, then pregnancy should be planned after 3 months. This is due to the fact that sperm often lose their motility and become defective while taking medications.

Complete renewal of male germ cells occurs after 70-90 days. Conceptions involving damaged male reproductive cells often end in miscarriage or frozen pregnancy.

Medicines during pregnancy

The shorter the pregnancy, the higher the risk of damage to the embryo. From 13-14 weeks, the use of antibacterial agents is possible, but according to strict indications and with the use of the safest drugs (Amoxiclav, Vilprafen). For up to 12 weeks, antibiotics are also sometimes prescribed, but only as a last resort, when there is a serious risk to the life and health of the expectant mother. The following medications are strictly prohibited for any period of time:

Tetracycline;
Gentamicin;
Levomycetin;
Streptomycin.

To summarize, we can say that antibiotics and pregnancy planning are not compatible things. Medicines can cause involuntary miscarriage. Plan to become pregnant three months after treatment. If conceiving a child and taking antibiotics coincided, visit your doctor, tell us about when and what medications you took, in what quantity and for what reason. Most likely, your obstetrician-gynecologist will reassure you. But at the same time, the development of the fetus will be especially closely monitored during gestation.

Fragile spermatogenesis

The main thing to understand is that antibiotics and conception are incompatible things. And this does not only mean women. The effect of antibiotics on spermogram is no less destructive. This question is often of interest to families planning to conceive a child.

Spermatogenesis is the process of producing male genetic material, and high-quality sperm is the key to the appearance of healthy offspring. This process is influenced by many factors - ecology, stress, diet and the like. Of course, antibiotics can cause considerable damage to men and their viability in terms of fertilization. They can cause temporary infertility, changes in the shape and mobility of germ cells, and affect the quality of the ejaculate as a whole. Interestingly, hyperthermia during infectious and viral diseases also has a negative effect on seminal fluid.

So is it possible to conceive a child if the husband takes antibiotics? Considering the above information, this is excluded, since low-quality sperm (if conception occurs at all) will lead to a miscarriage or the birth of a sick baby. Therefore, after taking antibiotics, the process of fertilization should certainly be postponed.

For couples systematically preparing for the birth of a new life, aggressive medications taken by a man can become a temporary obstacle due to their negative impact. Antibiotics and spermogram are mutually exclusive concepts, so it is not recommended to take a test in the three-month period after treatment, since its indicators will be too far from ideal.

Degree of negative impact on the fetus

The degree of negative effect of a particular antibacterial drug on conception depends mainly on its type and membership in a specific group of antibiotics:

Cefolomporins. When taking the drug in the first 12 weeks of gestation, it has a toxic effect on its tissue. Therefore, the manufacturer strongly does not recommend this drug during pregnancy up to 4 months.
Penicillins. Antibiotics of this group are considered the safest for pregnant women.
Fluoroquinols. Prevents the proper formation of cartilage and bone tissues of the embryo. During pregnancy, their use is not advisable.
Macrolides. They are located at the next level of safety after penicillins. Under the supervision of a doctor, they can be taken at all stages of pregnancy.
Sulfonamides. They have a negative impact on the development of the baby’s hematopoietic system. Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Nitrofurans. Lead to the development of pathologies of the urinary system. Not recommended for use by expectant mothers.
Tetracyclines. They have a teratogenic effect, interfere with normal metabolism and can lead to the development of congenital pathologies.

Damage from antibiotics caused in the first weeks of pregnancy can be tracked. To do this, the expectant mother should pay close attention to the first planned ultrasound screening, which is scheduled for 10-12 weeks. Most often, serious abnormal pathologies already manifest themselves at this stage and can be determined using ultrasound and blood tests.

The principle of action of aggressive medications

Antibiotics and conception are an obviously unsuccessful tandem, since the former have a specific effect on the human body. Schematically, this can be indicated as follows:

Destruction of the cell nucleus.
Rupture of the membrane shell.
Structural metamorphoses of RNA.

The effectiveness of new generation antibiotics is based on their aggressive invasion of the pathogenic cell by destroying the membrane. Next, the RNA is replaced with another substance. Autoimmune defense is triggered in the pathogenic agent, and its self-destruction begins.

Under the influence of antibiotics, sperm are destroyed.

The result of this mechanism is a cure for the disease, but the harm is not selective: healthy cells are also affected. As you know, sperm are male reproductive cells; naturally, they too are subject to destruction. The process of impaired spermatogenesis is reversible, but requires a certain time frame.

Effects on fertilization: medications

What antibiotics can have a very serious and long-lasting effect on the condition of the ejaculate? The fact is that modern medicine has about a hundred antibacterial drugs that affect health with varying aggressiveness. In particular, many of them inhibit spermatogenesis. Below is a list of these antibiotics:

Doxycycline. This is a strong medicine that is used for deadly diseases - salmonellosis, syphilis, as well as in the treatment of diseases of the ENT organs, gastrointestinal tract infections and gonorrhea. Sperm after taking this medication becomes incapacitated due to DNA deformation; accordingly, men develop temporary infertility.
Amoxicillin. After taking this medicine, the time required to restore adequate fertility is 30 days.
Streptomycin. The antibiotic has a neuroparalytic effect on muscle transmission, and the effect of its use can be compared with the legendary poison curare. If you take Streptomycin, this will inevitably affect the motility, shape of the seed, and therefore the spermogram.
Penicillin series. These medications often cause an autoimmune response in the body, in other words, allergic manifestations. Sperm from their use also becomes of poor quality.
Bicillin. The named antibiotic takes longer to leave the body than others - about a month. Therefore, the destructive effect on spermatogenesis has been observed for quite a long time.
Josamycin. This position does not have a serious effect, but still the sperm is modified for some time.

Under the influence of this drug, sperm becomes incapacitated.

The presented list is far from complete, but it forms the basis of those antibiotics that can affect male genetic material.

Terms of protection

The permitted period after which you can plan to conceive occurs after three months. Until this moment, the risks of various pathologies: miscarriages, unhealthy children, impaired male fertility are too great.

Why is this so? The mechanism of sperm production is subject to strict laws. Every day, male paired reproductive glands produce sperm. Cells live for about 5 days, respectively, their complete renewal occurs within a month. Antibiotic therapy lasts on average for a week. During this time, the drug accumulates in organs, including the prostate gland, destroying pathogenic molecules along with living ones.

After taking antibiotics, sperm die, their production, the quality of genetic material, motility and shape of the seed are disrupted. If you plan to conceive a child during this period, then the likelihood of various problems appearing is very high.

Recommendations from experts

Doctors recommend that couples where the man was forced to undergo a therapeutic course with antibiotics, postpone conceiving a child for up to 3 months. In the meantime, you should use contraceptives, normalize your lifestyle, and use drugs that restore intestinal microflora, since antibiotics suppress it greatly. Among other things, it is useful to use one of the high-quality multivitamin complexes in order to generally strengthen the body. Taking a spermogram within the specified period is absolutely futile, since the sperm is not of adequate quality.

It must be remembered: by neglecting the stated rules, you can acquire a very sad experience, the result of which will be unhealthy children. Listen to the advice of experts and be healthy!