Caffeine

My colleagues and I sometimes joke that we went to university for 13+ years and now that we are in practice we get asked “can I dye my hair in pregnancy?” and we can’t answer it! We were never taught the answer! We learned about molecular mechanisms of disease, spent hours in the histology lab reviewing cell structures, sat through many lectures on metabolism and pharmacology, etc. but we were never taught the answers to many everyday questions.

One such question I’m often asked is “how much caffeine is safe when trying to conceive?”