Two Antidepressants Taken During Pregnancy Linked To Heart Anomalies In Babies

[Celebration]

Thought this was important enough to use another source for this. Hopefully, this will satisfy people here.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124081150.htm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2008) — Women who took the antidepressant fluoxetine during the first three months of pregnancy gave birth to four times as many babies with heart problems as women who did not and the levels were three times higher in women taking paroxetine.

Although some of the conditions were serious, others were not severe and resolved themselves without the need for medical intervention, according to a three-country study in the November issue of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Researchers have advised women taking the drugs to continue unless they are advised to stop by their doctor or consultant. But they are being urged to give up smoking, as the study also found that more than ten cigarettes a day was associated with a five-fold increase in babies with major heart problems.

The team has also suggested that women on fluoxetine should be given a foetal echocardiogram in their second trimester to diagnose possible heart anomalies.

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“After we excluded genetic and cytogenic anomalies, we found a higher rate of major heart anomalies in the women who had been taking the antidepressants” says lead author Professor Asher Ornoy from the Israeli Teratology Information Service in Jerusalem, Israel.

[thereismore]

1. Prozac, Paxil. nt

[rocktivity]

2. Hopefully, the depression was not worsened, or even worse, CAUSED

by the pregnancy.

:headbang:
rocknation

[hedgehog]

3. Did you read the part about how cigarettes cause more hearth anomalies

than anti-depressants?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Good thing I smoke cigars.

Oh wait never mind it is highly unlikely I'm pregnant.

David