Re: Bendectin, it's ba-a-a-a-ck!
From: Deborah Wage (wagedj@home.com)
Mon Jan 3 15:10:07 2000
Here is a URL with the ingrediants to compound Bendectin. Would there be an
legalities to this?
http://members.aol.com/mefrancom/cmpd0002.html
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Deborah Wage, MSN, FNP,CNM
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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
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>> 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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