Study, Mar./17: "Risk mitigation for children exposed to drugs during gestation"

The full title of this paper is "Risk mitigation for children exposed to drugs during gestation: A critical role for animal preclinical behavioral testing".

 

This information is quite concerning:

 

"Similar behavioral and cognitive deficits, including autism and ADHD emerged in human offspring and in animal models of these disorders after exposure to fluoxetine, valproic acid, carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital and acetaminophen. Rodent data helpful in identifying and predicting adverse effects of prenatal drug exposure in children were first generated many years after drugs were FDA-approved and administered to pregnant women."

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28315722 

 

interesting. we have members now and then who join because they are pregnant and their doctors have advised them that they need to get off benzodiazepines.

I've read quite a few of these abstracts that are looking at how medications affect unborn babies. It's worrisome. This one mentions acetaminophen, which is usually considered "safe". Perhaps not.