Like Paxil, Zoloft antidepressant can cause birth defects meriting a defective drug lawsuit

The world’s top-selling antidepressant, Zoloft, is harming innocent American babies. Some newborn infants and children as they grow older suffer from a variety of birth defect injuries caused by the mother’s use of Zoloft while pregnant.

Made by Pfizer Inc., Zoloft is a kind of drug known as an SSRI, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Zoloft’s SSRI, or active ingredient, is called sertraline. Paxil also is an SSRI. And both antidepressant drugs can cause birth defects.

Also sold -- and also harmful -- is generic Zoloft It can come in three levels of strength: 25 mg, 50 mg and 100 mg. Numerous American pharmaceutical manufacturers produce generic Zoloft, sometimes as  sertraline tablets, and other times as a liquid concentrate going by the name of sertraline hydrochloride.

Zoloft or generic Zoloft can produce many harmful side effects, and these include PPHN, or persistent pulmonary hypertension. The drugs also can lead to increased risk of a child suffering congenital (at birth) heart defects, including atrial septal and ventricular septal defects.

They also may lead to such congenital birth defects as omphalocele, which involves a sac containing the liver and small and large intestine jutting from the abdominal wall in the umbilical cord’s vicinity.

Another congenital birth defect caused by Zoloft is craniosynostosis, in which sutures on the baby’s head close more quickly than normal, leading to an abnormal shape of the skull as the infant grows larger.

Studies and research demonstrate that using Zoloft during pregnancy heighten the unborn child’s danger of suffering such birth defects as well as others, often involving the lungs, brain, heart and other vital organs. But what can victims do, beyond seeking medical help? They can pursue financial compensation for such injuries via a Zoloft defective drug lawsuit.

Families with children who suffered birth defects after the mother took Zoloft during pregnancy have a legal right to explore such a lawsuit to gain economic recovery for medical bills and pain and suffering. And they can get such legal help via the defective drug lawyers aligned with Lawyer Paxil.com, an attorney group serving Americans across the country, and also assisting families with Paxil birth defect injuries.

How can you start? That’s simple. Just submit the free case review form on this Web page, or call toll-free to 1-800-344-9966. Then let a legal professional help you size up your prospects for a successful Zoloft birth defects lawsuit.