Are antidepressants safe in pregnancy? While it has been a topic of much debate, it is a decision that is best made after understanding your medical situation and weighing the risks against the benefits. If you were on antidepressants before your pregnancy, it could be a tough call whether yo...
Antidepressants Appear Safe During Pregnancy.LINDSAY, HEATHER
Examples are antidepressants Prozac (flouxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline), plus the antiviral Tamiflu. Truthfully, this category often becomes a catchall for needed medications. The studies just aren't there in any rigorous ways--and in an ideal world you wouldn't take these-but the results of...
In the last decades, the potential association between antidepressants and cancer risk has been increasingly investigated. Fundamental researches, performed on animal models and cell tumoral lines, have highlighted several biological mechanisms possibly supporting this association. Nevertheless, the epidemiologica...
severe hypertension, oral agents of choice include methyldopa, labetalol and metoprolol. Some women with severe depression will need to continue receiving pharmacologic therapy while pregnant. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are considered to be safer than tricyclic antidepressants, but paroxetine ...
Antidepressants, like serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and serotonin reuptake inhibitors, are used to treat patients suffering from depression and similar conditions. While these medicines can give certain relief to patients, they can cause serious side effects like birth defects, withdrawal sympt...
You probably should not drink, for example, if you have liver disease, a history of addiction, or are on any medications that may conflict with alcohol, such as antidepressants. And if you’re concerned that you are drinking too much and feel that you cannot stop -- during your pregnancy...
Participants were excluded from the present analysis on the basis of multiple birth, birth before 37 weeks’ gestation or after 41 weeks’ gestation, or prenatal exposure to any psychiatric medications at any point during pregnancy (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antidepressants, classic ...
36,37 This would suggest that there is a possibility that in some cases, antidepressants like Zoloft can make the cycle of depression harder to resolve. Zoloft Aggression in Children Previous studies have also indicated a link between SSRIs and violent behavior. Diagnosticians call it ...
In Part 1 of this two-part article, we looked at how Prozac and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) came to lead the market for antidepressants in the 1990s. These drugs have been taken by tens of millions of people, in... G Null,M Feldman - 《Townsend Letter for Doc...