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Texas Medication SSRI Birth Defect Claims
Avoidable
birth
defects are one of the most devastating problems that can
occur to a family and a new baby. Parents who
should be celebrating the birth of a new child, are often
caught off guard when their child is born with severe
disabilities and often do not realize that someone may
be responsible for the birth injury or defect including drug
manufacturers that hid information about medications that
can cause birth defects. The family is typically busy
taking care of the child with the serious health problems
and often does not know that the birth defect was
preventable. When they discover the probable cause of
the preventable birth defect they are often filled with
anger and rage. To find out that their child will have
permanent health problems or that they lost their baby
because a drug company hid research and did not provide an
adequate warning of a product's safety can be extremely
difficult
If you believe that your child has
suffered a birth defect or birth injury as a result of a
defective drug, medication, or product,
contact Austin Texas Birth Injury Lawyer Jason Coomer
for a free review of your Texas Birth
Injury Claim or Texas Birth Defect Claims or
use our online submission form.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants (SSRIs)
Birth Defect Claims
Some medications that have been linked to
birth defects include Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
Antidepressants (SSRIs). Women that have taken SSRIs
after the 20th week of pregnancy have a 6-fold
increased risk of having their child develop persistent pulmonary
hypertension, a life-threatening lung disorder.
Infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension have
abnormal blood flow through the heart and lungs and do not
get enough oxygen to their bodies and may become very sick
or die. For more information on Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressant Birth Defect Claims,
please go to our SSRI Birth Defect Claim Information Page.
The SSRIs antidepressants that have been
linked to persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) include
Paxil by GlaxoSmithKline, Zoloft marketed by Pfizer; Prozac
sold by Eli Lilly; Celexa and Lexapro by Forest
Laboratories, Effexor marketed by Wyeth, Luvox by Solvay,
and the generic makers of these drugs include Barr
Pharmaceuticals, Ranbaxy Labs and Genpharm.
Infants born with PPHN often require
mechanical assistance to breath and even worse about 10% to
20% of the infants do not survive even when they receive
treatment. The PPHN babies that do survive often experience
developmental delays, brain abnormalities and hearing loss,
experts say.
Other birth defects that have been
associated with SSRIs include Anencephaly, a neural tube
defect where much of the brain does not develop;
Craniosynostosis, an abnormality in which connections of the
skull bones close prematurely; and Heart birth defects
including septal defects and ventricular defects.
SSRIs have not only been associated to
birth defects, but have been associated with increased risk
of suicide. For more information on suicide claims
from antidepressants, please see our
antidepressant
suicide claim information page.
Medication Birth Defect Claims
Several
medications, products, and drugs have been linked to birth
defects. Some of these medication and products have
ample warnings that warn pregnant women to avoid taking
these products while they are pregnant, however, some
manufacturers have hidden the real dangers of their product
in order to sell more of their product and value profits
over healthy babies. For these manufacturers, they may
have short term profits, but over the long term they will
suffer for the long term birth defects that they have
caused.
Federal and Texas Birth Defect Claims
Federal and Texas Birth Defect Claims are
some of the most complicated types of cases in the practice
of law. As a Texas birth defect and birth injury lawyer that has handles
infant death and stillborn baby claims, I have worked with
other Birth Defect Lawyers throughout the United States as
well as in Texas including Boston Birth Defect Lawyers,
Atlanta Birth Defect Lawyers, Virginia Birth Defect Lawyers,
Dallas Birth Defect Lawyers, Houston Birth Defect
Lawyers, and other SRRI Birth Defect Lawyers. In working with other birth defect lawyers,
we seek compensation from negligent drug companies and other
companies that
have severely injured or killed infants or mothers through
selling dangerous products, medications, and drugs that they
should have know were dangerous, but hid significant
research in order to sell more product to make a profit.
If you have suffered the loss of your
baby or your baby has been born with a significant birth
defect, feel free to
contact Austin Texas Birth Defect Claim and Birth Injury
Claim Attorney, Jason S. Coomer.
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