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Brain birth defects can come from defective antidepressant drugs

Some birth defects are worse than others. Brain birth defects are among the worst. And these may be a direct result of an expectant mother taking certain antidepressant drugs during pregnancy.

One congenital birth defect harming the brain is microcephaly, or microcephalus. This brain birth defect or birth injury occurs when the head is abnormally small. It’s considered a congenital malformation of the baby’s nervous system.
   
A baby suffering from microcephaly may be significantly retarded in terms of mental abilities and development. Indeed, the child has a low chance to achieve normal brain function and to live a long life.

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Spina bifida among spine birth defects caused by antidepressant drugs Paxil, Zoloft and others

Sometimes a fetal baby’s backbone and spinal canal do not close adequately before birth. If so, it’s a spine birth defects condition called myelomeningocele, a common form of what’s known as spina bifida.

Normally during fetal development, the two sides of the spine fuse to cover the nerves of the spine, along with the tissues or meninges over the spinal cord itself. With a spina bifida form of spine birth defect, the spine does not close completely.

The type of spina bifida called myelomeningocele exists when the bones of the spine don’t completely form, causing the spinal canal to be incomplete. Thus, the spinal cord and the meninges or tissues may stick out of the baby’s back.

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Urinary tract birth defects caused by defective antidepressants include hypospadias, hydronephrosis, undescended testes

Every parent’s fear is hearing their newborn child has a birth defect injury to a vital and sensitive part of the body. Sometimes those injuries involve the urinary tract.  And those injuries can be caused  by a defective antidepressant or other drug  taken by the mother while she was pregnant.

Hypospadias afflicts about one out of every 250 male infants in America. This urinary tract birth defect involves the urethra opening being beneath the penis instead of on the tip, or perhaps being near the base or in the middle of the penis, or perhaps even behind the scrotum. Treatment often involves corrective surgery.

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Cleft lip, cleft palate birth defects may strike babies whose mother took an antidepressant

Children whose mother took certain antidepressants while she was pregnant may suffer a horribly disfiguring birth defect known as cleft lip or cleft palate. A cleft lip condition also is known as cheiloschisis, while a cleft palate also is called palatoschisis. These conditions may appear independently, or they can appear at the same time.

What does “cleft” mean? It means there’s an opening, fissure or gap in the infant child’s face. This gap frequently is referred to as a “harelip,” since the nature of the cleft resembles in some ways the lip of a rabbit or hare.

A cleft lip or a cleft palate are both known as a congenital (at birth) deformity arising after the unborn child’s face develops abnormally in the mother’s womb.

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Antidepressants can cause heart birth defects meriting a defective drug lawsuit

For many Americans, one nightmare is real: Their child suffers a birth defect injury. And for many, this would not have occurred without the negligence of a pharmaceutical company which placed profits ahead of human safety, even when it came to innocent babies.

Such corporations -- some homegrown and some foreign -- have inflicted injuries on Americans via defective drugs known as SSRI antidepressants. These include Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil, Luvox, Cipralex, Celexa and Lexapro. Non-SSRI antidepressants also causing birth defects are Wellbutrin, Effexor and Remeron.

Some of the worst birth defects these drugs inflict are heart defects. In fact, there’s a host of heart defects caused by antidepressant drugs taken by a woman while she is pregnant.

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