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Pedro Meloand Arri Coomarasamy

University of Birmingham and Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Case History 1: A 26‐year‐old woman with Crohn’s disease presents for IVF treatment. She has never had abdominal surgery, and her gastrointestinal symptoms have been well controlled with azathioprine and adalimumab. However, her general practitioner has expressed concerns about continuing these two drugs in pregnancy.

Case History 2: Despite advice to avoid herbal medicines, a woman undergoing IVF treatment insisted on taking echinacea as she believed this herbal remedy boosted her immune system and reduced the risk of implantation failure, which she had suffered in two previous IVF cycles.