Women On Antidepressants Who Stop Medication During Pregnancy Risk Experiencing Relapse, Study Says
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Lee Cohen, watch of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center in pining of Women’s Mental Health, and colleagues computer screen 201 pregnant women concerning 1999 and 2003 beside a earlier period of depression (Reuters, 1/31). The women be on medication such in place of Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor and Paxil. Researchers found that 68% of the women who stopped taking antidepressants relapse into depression during pregnancy. In appendage, 26% of the women who nonstop taking their medication during pregnancy also become depressed (AP/Long Island Newsday, 1/31). When women steal antidepressants during pregnancy, several infant can work on disowning syndrome, which count spitefulness and fluctuations in warmth. However, the highest commonly-prescribed antidepressants hold not be associated to birth defect, according to Newsday (Newsday, 1/31). FDA have caution that Paxil may possibly be tied to fetal defects when taken during the inventive three months of pregnancy (AP/Long Island Newsday, 1/31). Jennifer Wu, an obstetrician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, suggest that instead of stop their medication, pregnant women who take antidepressents should sink off the dosage (Reuters, 1/31). NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Tuesday chitchat on the study. The segment include remarks from Cohen; Nada Stotland, professor of psychiatry and obstetrics at Rush Medical College; and study participant (Aslanian, “All Things Considered,” NPR, 1/31). The vertical segment be at your disposal online in RealPlayer.
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