Women Can Take Antidepressants During Pregnancy

Women Can Take Antidepressants During Pregnancy.
Women who deduce non-fluctuating antidepressants while pregnant do not raise the risk of a stillbirth or death of their baby in the first year of life, according to a colossal new study. The findings stem from an analysis involving 30000 women in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, who gave family to more than 1,6 million babies, in total, between 1996 and 2007. Close to 2 percent of the women took instruction selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as Prozac (fluoxetine) and Paxil (paroxetine), for depressive symptoms during their pregnancy.

The investigating team, led by Dr Olof Stephansson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, reports in the Jan 2, 2013 delivery of the Journal of the American Medical Association that initially women taking an SSRI for the dumps did seem to be familiar with statistically higher rates of stillbirth and infant death. However, that uptick in hazard disappeared once they accounted for other factors, including the threat posed by bust and the mother's history of psychiatric disease or hospitalizations, the authors noted in a journal news release.