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Acne medicine that should not be consumed during pregnancy

2024-01-27 13:42:00, Shëndeti CNA
Acne medicine that should not be consumed during pregnancy
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The acne medication isotretinoin is known to cause birth defects in babies exposed during pregnancy.

More than 170 pregnancies in Germany may have been at risk after mothers took the anti-acne drug isotretinoin between 2004 and 2019. 

Isotretinoin, which is better known by its former brand name Accutane, among others, is a drug prescribed for severe acne writes Euronews. 

But the drug has a long list of side effects, among them the potential to cause birth defects.

"In the main analysis, we made very careful assumptions to avoid overestimating the number of pregnancies exposed to isotretinoin," Dr Ulrike Haug, study author from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, told Euronews Next.

"Our sensitivity analysis showed that the number of exposed pregnancies could be much higher, given that there is some uncertainty in these estimates," she said.

The researchers also found that the number of pregnancies at risk of exposure doubled per year during the study period. At least 45 percent of exposed pregnancies ended in miscarriage. /CNA 

 





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