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OB: Prozac In Pregnancy: Trouble Brewing?From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Sun Feb 22 08:15:56 2004
Prozac during pregnancy could harm baby February 22, 2004 BY MICHAEL DAY Pregnant women who use Prozac and similar drugs to combat depression could be damaging the brains of their unborn babies, research shows. A study of 34 mothers and their babies found the first direct evidence of a link between fetal exposure to Prozac and similar drugs and disrupted neurological development. Researchers linked abnormal sleeping patterns, heart rhythms and levels of alertness to drugs called selective-serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, of which Prozac (fluoxetine) is the best known. Lead researcher Philip Zeskind, a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said his study of 34 mothers and their babies, which appeared in the journal Pediatrics, was small, but he added that the results were alarming and demanded a followup. His team compared 17 babies born to mothers who took the drugs Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft or Celexa during pregnancy with 17 babies born to mothers who had never taken such drugs. Babies exposed to the drugs tended to be locked in one "sleep state," Zeskind said. They also showed "fewer of the smooth and predictable changes in heart rate that normally occur in newborn infants." http://www.suntimes.com/output/health/cst-nws-prozac22.html art
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