allegra(telfast) during pregnancy

[zuch1111]

I have a cure with fexofenadine (allegra) before and during first 2 weeks of may pregnancy. Does anybody know what is the effect of taking that medicine for the baby ? Actually I am looking for possible reason of rare undeveloped arms of my daghter.

[AnnieBrooke]

You might google "fexofenadine and pregnancy;" it sounds like there have not been tests done on the effects in human pregnancies.  Just a thought -- if something is taken during only the first 2 weeks of pregnancy, if it were dangerous (and I don't know if fexofenadine is) it seems like it would be more likely to damage the embryo overall or cause a miscarriage than to affect just the arms and nothing else.  Did your doctor rule out amniotic band syndrome?

[zuch1111]

This is not amniotic band syndrome for sure. in both arms are big defficiency of : right elbow, ulnar,ray bone, three palangees, left: ulnar bone, two palangees. And those are the only malformations without other inner damages. Doughter is very intelligent, healhty. i have two older sons who have not any congenital malformations. In our families were not any handicapped people. That is why I am looking for fexofenadine teratogenic effects. I started cure because my allergy before I get pregnant and continued for more or less 2-3 weeks pregnancy. I took flixotide for nose and montelukast(singulair) and telfast(allegra, fexofenadine) once a day. I you have any informations about scentific researches with rats or mouses and effects for pregnancy, let me know.
Regards
Kasia