Re: Bendectin, it's ba-a-a-a-ck!
From: james connerth (babydoc@apex.net)
Mon Jan 3 12:02:56 2000
NOT back in US---you can bank on that!!!
Joanne Bulley wrote:
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> When I was doing Ob I frequently discussed and offerred the 1/2 Unisom and
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> 10-25 of B6 3-4 X daily as Bendectin sustitute. With the rest of the
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> discussion. It is nice to see SOME logic surfacing on this type of subject.
> The women who had had one pregnancy using it as Bedectin and were in the next
> without it, were DELIGHTED to have the option back.
>
> Joanne Bulley
> >
> > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:20:16 -0600 (CST)
> > From: ainsron@msn.com (Ronald E. Ainsworth)
> >
> > I was pleased to read in my December update to Briggs, Freeman & Yaffe,
> > Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, that in the August 1999 Federal
> > Register, the FDA added the combination of pyridoxine HCL (10 mg) and
> > doxylamine succinate (10 mg) to tis published list of "approved drug
> > products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations." It is now considered
> > safe and effective and pharmaceutical manufacturers can now file an
> > abbreviated new drug application and market it in the US. Briggs rates
> > it as a category "A" drug in pregnancy. It is hard to believe that drug
> > was taken off the market 21 years ago, just because of "shark attacks,"
> > not because of science. In spite of the removal of Bendectin continued
> > to use the OTC combination of Unisom and B6 for my patients with
> > hyperemesis, because it worked so well and the risks were discounted
> > many years ago. It sure made a difference for my own wife! How about
> > the rest of the members of the list?
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