Often, a pregnant woman will experience hormonal difficulties which lead to a state of depression. This depression can be so severe that some women enlist the help of a prescribed antidepressant drug. But though such drugs may ease depression or anxiety, they also can cause horrible side effects for the woman’s unborn baby.
Indeed, some antidepressants are responsible for causing serious birth defects. An infant baby or newborn child suffering these birth defects of the heart or lungs may need surgery or even several surgeries in order to survive, much less have a normal life. And why? Because negligent manufacturers who care more about profits than human safety have made, marketed and sold defective drugs to unsuspecting users.
Some of the defective drugs, which can cause birth defects, are the antidepressant drugs Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Remeron, Cipralax, Celexa, Lexapro and Luvox. These drugs are all what’s known as an SSRI, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Also capable of causing birth defect injuries are antidepressant drugs Wellbutrin and Effexor and seizure drugs Depakote and Topamax.
Antidepressant birth defects may include congenital (at birth) heart defects, which can be quite serious. These defects could be a heart murmur, a ventricular septal defect or an atrial septal defect. Sufferers also may have a lung defect known as PPHN, or persistent pulmonary hypertension. Still more SSRI birth defects are craniosynostosis, which harms the skull and brain, as well as “water on the brain,” cleft lip and cleft palate. Even if an antidepressant drug does its job and reduces depression, it also can cause any of these birth defect injuries.
Studies show a definite cause-and-effect when some drugs are taken by pregnant women. It’s been demonstrated that using some SSRI antidepressants or other defective drugs while pregnant can boost the chances of a newborn child having a brain, heart, lung, spine, urinary tract or other birth defect. That’s why a family that’s experienced such a tragedy should explore its legal right to pursue financial compensation in a defective drug lawsuit provided by a birth defect lawyer.
Such a birth defect lawsuit can be pressed with the help of SSRI-Birth-Defect.com, an attorney group helping people across America. Want to learn more? Explore its defective drug website to read articles about antidepressant birth defects, and also to signal a defective drug lawyer or birth defect lawyer about your problem.
To do that, just send in the site’s free online case review form. Or telephone toll-free to 1-800-519-4411. In either case, a legal representative will get back to you soon to help you evaluate your chances for gaining economic recovery for your family’s medical bills and pain and suffering. Your newborn baby certainly deserves such financial compensation, as well as the justice that can spring from a birth defect lawyer’s defective drug lawsuit.