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Antidepressant can cause birth defects meriting a defective drug lawsuit

Some newborn infants and children as they grow older suffer from a variety of birth defect injuries caused by the mother’s use of antidepressant while pregnant.

 

 

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Seizure drugs Topamax, Depakote also cause birth defects

It’s not just antidepressants which can cause birth defect injuries. Two seizure drugs also can cause pain and misery to unsuspecting American families when the mother uses such a drug during pregnancy. And those two drugs are Depakote and Topamax.

Each can be prescribed to fight epilepsy and migraine headaches. Yet neither is safe for the unborn children of women who are pregnant when they take the seizure drug. In fact, if taken in her first trimester, such drugs greatly increase the dangers of her child suffering a debilitating birth defect injury.

Among such possible seizure drug side effects is spina bifida. It involves the infant’s spinal canal and backbone failing to close properly before birth. If a pregnant woman takes Depakote, her child will have a risk more than 10 times greater of having such a birth defect.

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SSRI antidepressant birth defect injuries may impact heart, lung, brain, spinal cord

Any birth defect is a cause for concern, but the birth defect injuries caused by an SSRI antidepressant can be especially serious. In fact, they may threaten a newborn baby or an infant child’s life, making it vital that the child have surgery to get a fighting chance to live a normal life -- or to live at all.

What kinds of SSRI birth defect injuries are apt to occur after a woman takes such an antidepressant during pregnancy? Many antidepressant SSRI side effects are possible as birth defects, and some of the worst afflict children’s vital organs, such as the heart.

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Pregnancy can cause depression, but antidepressant SSRI drugs may harm the child

Pregnancy can be a wonderful time for a woman, filled with anticipation about her child to be. But many women also suffer hormonal imbalances and other problems during pregnancy which can lead to depression -- sometimes even severe depression.

Severe depression must be treated, and often this is done via antidepressant drugs. But certain antidepressants known as an SSRI, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, may cause even greater problems while easing a pregnant woman’s depression. They may cause SSRI birth defects.

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