If the patient is pregnant or breast-feeding, thinking may be pregnant or planning to have a baby, ask the doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine.
Dexa-Gentamicin eye drops should not be used in the first trimenon, and during the further course of pregnancy (Eye drops); later (Eye oint) only after a careful benefit-risk-assessment by a doctor.
Glucocorticoids, among them dexamethasone sodium phosphate (Eye drops); dexamethasone (Eye oint) pass into breast milk. A harmful effect to the infant has not been reported until now. Nevertheless, the necessity of the treatment during breast-feeding should be precisely evaluated. Because of the low absorption of the active substance into systemic circulation no side effects on the infant caused by gentamicin are to be expected.