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Does Taking Finasteride While Trying To Conceive Harm The Fetus?

My name is Daniel and my wife is 8 months pregnant. I have been taking finasteride since I was 21 years of age and I am 33 now. I have never missed a dose in the years I ve been taking it and i usually would bite a 5 mg dose in half, so approximately i would be taking 2 mg daily. Im concerned about the health risk factors for baby since I m taking finasteride. We are having little boy and I m nervous that semen has carried finasteride to our unborn child possibly hurting his. We have had unprotected sex while she was pregnant all throughout the last 8 months and i have ejaculated inside her vagina. Could the finasteride thats found in semen be absorbed by wife wife and cause harm to the baby. I have read that the finasteride causes a birth defect where the urthra opening is on the penis. Please help me with a straight up answer please.
Wed, 18 Jul 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Finasterire does not cause any harm to your baby. The finasteride in your system did not go to your partner and nothing to worry in it.

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Does Taking Finasteride While Trying To Conceive Harm The Fetus?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Finasterire does not cause any harm to your baby. The finasteride in your system did not go to your partner and nothing to worry in it. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.