Understanding Paxil Birth Defects
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In December 2005, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Paxil, the results published on its website regarding pregnant women on antidepressants. In this announcement, GSK said it was taking into account its status as a precautionary measure, pregnant from C to D. This review is on recent studies show that positive tests for the risk of the human fetus. In addition, GSK has been to put this information in the warnings section of the label for Paxil.
The FDA therefore advises pregnant women to move from Paxil to another SSRI drugs like Prozac and Zoloft. This warning was shown on the results of an analysis of birth registration in Sweden is that the women took Paxil were 1.5 to 2 times more likely to give birth to a child with a heart defect than women, the other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), antidepressants, or did not take place.
Studies also show that complications for babies born to mothers who reported antidepressants such as Paxil, during the third month of pregnancy. These complications include difficulty breathing, bluish, seizures, changes in body temperature, feeding problems, vomiting, hypoglycemia, muscle rigidity, tremor, irritability or constant crying. In other words, like adults, babies whose mothers took Paxil during pregnancy withdrawal symptoms similar birth. For this reason, tube feeding, help with breathing and longer hospital stays of May is required. Premature births in pregnant women exposed to SSRIs like Paxil have also been reported.
On the basis of these reports, the obstetrician went so far as to recommend that women avoid Paxil and reconsider the use of SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy. However, other doctors say the benefits of mothers during the treatment of depression outweigh the risks to the fetus.
Having caused the birth defects most commonly antidepressants as holes or other malformations in the chambers of the heart. Defects often heal on their own, but severe cases, a surgical procedure. GSK will be investigated, such as Paxil may be the cause of these shortcomings.
In addition, antidepressants, known to the metabolism of blood sugar imbalances and deterioration in gestational diabetes. However, it is doubtful whether those in pregnant women who receive these drugs is explained.
Medical experts at the head of the mental health of women, it is important to time prescribed drug for women who are pregnant assessed. Paxil is currently one of the most popular antidepressants worldwide and about 25 percent of users are women of childbearing age – between 18 and 45.