
Asthma during pregnancy can be life-threatening. So counsel patients not to stop taking asthma drugs; most are not harmful to a fetus.
DR. SAMUELS is Program Director, Obstetrics and gynecology Residency, and Associate Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of OB/GYN, The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, OH.

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