This means considering the number of medications a mother is on, as well as her psychiatric illness. If your illness is mild, your doctor might recommend getting off medication and replacing it with treatments such as psychotherapy, prenatal yoga or acupuncture to improve your mood. Ultimately, Osborne says women should weigh the risks of medication against the risk of untreated illness.
Medication risks are typically not greater than those of untreated mental illness. Health Home Wellness and Prevention. Antidepressants and Pregnancy Women who take antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors SSRIs , during pregnancy may worry about whether the medications can cause birth defects.
Paroxetine : Early studies on a small number of patients connected the SSRI paroxetine with cardiac defects in babies. Osborne says larger, more recent studies show no such link with cardiac defects. Benzodiazepines : Women should avoid using tranquilizers, such as diazepam, alprazolam and clonazepam, in high doses during pregnancy because they can lead to sedation and respiratory distress in the newborn.
Reuters Health - Women who take the antidepressant paroxetine Paxil, Seroxat early in pregnancy may be more likely to have babies with birth defects, a review of previous research suggests.
While the absolute risk of birth defects remains small at 1 percent to 3 percent across all pregnancies, researchers found that using paroxetine during the first trimester was linked to a 23 percent increase in risk for major congenital malformations and a 28 percent higher risk of heart defects.
Left untreated, depression during pregnancy is associated with underweight babies who are more likely to wind up in neonatal intensive care, previous research has found. Pregnant women with uncontrolled depression may not eat well or keep up with prenatal visits, and, in the most severe cases they may be at increased risk for suicide. By Mayo Clinic Staff. Thank you for Subscribing Our Housecall e-newsletter will keep you up-to-date on the latest health information.
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