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How safe is it to use antidepressant during pregnancy? Talk to an Effexor attorney to know how women taking antidepressant drugs are/were fighting hard to save their children instead of enjoying the bliss of motherhood. Since 2005, there have been numerous research studies citing the serious risk of Effexor birth defects. Even the FDA had warned of potential birth injuries to newborns when antidepressants used by expectant mothers.
Effexor Birth Defects: The Fear Factor
- Serious lung disorder
- Heart defects, such as hypoplastic heart, septal flaws, valve problems, etc.
- Brain and cranial defects, including anencephaly, chiari malformations
- Autism and delays in growth and development
- Deformities in neural tube
- Spina bifida, vertebra and anus malformations
- Neurological disorders
- Cleft lip and palate, clubfoot
Effexor Antidepressant and Pregnancy: The Reality
Women taking Effexor or other SNRI and SSRI antidepressants unintentionally put their unborn babies at the risk of life-threatening birth defects in the absence of any information on such potential side effects by the manufacturer. A Mississippi woman gave birth to a girl child with heart defects and persistent pulmonary hypertension. Doctors categorized the newborn as an “Effexor baby” or those born with such injuries due to prenatal exposure to the SNRI antidepressant. The child, who remained in neonatal intensive care and had surgeries soon after the birth, requires life-long medical care now to live a normal life.
The mother took Effexor for five months until she gave birth to her daughter. Her Effexor attorney claims that “the drug is unreasonably dangerous/defective drug as specified by Mississippi law due to (Pfizer’s) failure to adequately warn patients and their physicians and the manufacturer acted with gross negligence which evidences a willful, wanton or reckless disregard for the safety of others, entitling both mother and daughter to punitive damages.”
An Ohio woman has filed an Effexor lawsuit saying that “the medication is defective, dangerous to human health, unfit and unsuitable to be marketed and sold in commerce and lacked proper warnings as to the dangers associated with its use.” She ingested antidepressant regularly while she was pregnant and came to know about its horrific side effects only after her son was born with atrial septal flaw and other cardiac birth defects. Her Effexor lawyer asserts that the child had congenital deformities as the manufacturer failed to list “about any birth defects and other serious pregnancy issues associated with the use of Effexor or emphasized within the Effexor prescribing information and/or drug label, which make many to believe that Effexor was safe for use during pregnancy and would not cause birth defects.”
Effexor Birth Defect Research: Reports Highlight Concern
- Six-time higher risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension (lung disorder), New England Journal of Medicine, 2006
- Two-fold risk of post-delivery hemorrhage and birth defects, British Medical Journal, August 2013
- Severe heart defects and deformities in newborns, British Medical Journal, 2009
- Delayed growth and development of children, speaking, walking, and sitting problems, Pediatrics Journal, March 2010
- Effexor birth defect risk, American Academy of Pediatrics Advisory, 2012
Effexor Birth Defect Lawsuit
Thousands of parents have lost their children or trying hard to ensure a normal life for them because “Pfizer and Wyeth took no action to adequately warn or remedy the risks, but instead concealed, suppressed and failed to disclose birth defect dangers” associated with Effexor. This mistake on the part of manufacturers forced parents and children suffer from life-long grief, pain, and economic losses.
Women or children subject to “suffering, disability, disfigurement, impairment of working ability, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment, and constant medical care” due to “manufacturer’s failure to warn, design defect, negligence, negligent design, fraud, breach of warranty, gross negligence, and violation of Consumer Sales Practices Acts” are at liberty to file Effexor product liability lawsuits.
An Effexor birth defect MDL has been created under Pennsylvania federal Judge Cynthia Rufe for pretrial consolidation of similar lawsuits. The first trial is expected to be held in November 2015.
To know about the process for filing Effexor lawsuit and pursue defective medical device product liability claims for financial and non-financial damages citing drug maker’s actions and inactions, please contact us or call on 1-800-632-1404.
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