Lung, heart, brain injuries are among antidepressant Paxil side effects dangers for infants, newborn babies

The last thing prospective parents want to hear is that their child may be born with a serious birth defect. But sadly that is the case with some children whose mother used defective drug Paxil as an antidepressant during pregnancy.

As a result, it's believed that many children are being born with Paxil birth defects. Among them are serious injuries to vital body organs and systems, from the heart and lungs to the brain and spinal column. Such injuries can lead to costly surgeries, and that cost should not be borne by innocent victims, but rather by the pharmaceutical corporation whose negligence caused them harm. And the Bob Goldwater Law Firm can help with a Paxil birth defects lawsuit.

 

Manufactured and sold in the United States and Canada by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline of London, or GSK, Paxil is believed to cause such birth defects as pulmonary (lungs) or cardiac (heart) injuries. The defective drug also may cause neural-tube defects to the brain and spinal cord, as well as infant omphalocele (abdominal wall defects), club foot (one or both feet turning down and inward), craniosynostosis (abnormally shaped skull) and ana atresia (partial or complete closure of the anus).

It's widely believed based on growing evidence that such birth defects, which often require surgery or surgeries, would not occur had pregnant women not been exposed to the defective drug Paxil.

Paxil also has been shown to cause a particularly common problem in newborns: persistent primary hypertension, or PPHN. Studies also have shown that children of pregnant women who used Paxil in their first trimester suffered heart defects upon birth up to twice as often as all other children.

Any of these serious Paxil side effects conditions is reason enough to be wary of defective drugs such as Paxil, which now is the subject of public health advisories by the Food and Drug Administration. Yet many physicians still prescribe it.

If such advisories came too late for your child, or if your physician was not among the more cautious, alert a Paxil defective drugs lawyer or personal injury attorney with the Bob Goldwater Law Firm of Attorney Robert Goldwater. Via a Paxil side effects lawsuit, he or she can seek the financial compensation you deserve from the negligent manufacturer which caused your child's Paxil birth defects.