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If you took Zoloft® during your pregnancy and your baby was born with a limb reduction defect, we may be able to help you obtain financial compensation for your suffering.

What is Limb Reduction?

Limb reduction is a birth defect in which a part of or the entire limb – such as an arm or a leg – of a fetus fails to completely develop in the womb, resulting in an infant born with a smaller than normal or even a missing limb. Limb reduction can be genetically inherited, but it can also occur due to the mother's ingestion of a chemical substance, such as an antidepressant.

What Problems does Limb Reduction Cause?

As expected, there are a number of problems and emotional challenges that are suffered by those children who are born with the limb reduction defect. Just how much difficulty a child with limb reduction will suffer in performing daily activities, such as bathing and feeding, depends on which limb and the extent that it is reduced. There will also be problems in the development of motor skills, movement limitations, and certain sports and activities will be more difficult.

Treatment for limb reduction is limited and the goal is to provide the child with a limb that has proper function and appearance. Options for treatment can include surgery, medication, and physical therapies, but more commonly involve artificial limbs or orthotics (splints and braces). Almost all children born with limb reduction will have physical limitations and the need for varying levels of assistance depending on what corrective measures are possible throughout their lives.

Many children who suffer from limb reduction suffer emotional problems due to their physical appearance and life limitations.

Antidepressant Zoloft® and Limb Reduction in Infants

Limb reduction birth defects can occur when pregnant mothers take certain medications during pregnancy, such as the antidepressant Zoloft®, the brand name for the generic antidepressant Sertraline hydrochloride, making limb reduction one of many possible antidepressant side effects. Doctors are directed to discuss with their patients the risks of taking Zoloft® while pregnant.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed Zoloft® in its Pregnancy Category C class of drugs. Placement in this class means that the drug has not been effectively studied in pregnant women due to the moral problem with testing drugs on pregnant woman, but animal reproduction studies have shown side effects on the fetus and the mother when given Zoloft®.

Contact a Zoloft® Birth Defect Lawyer

If after taking Zoloft® antidepressant during pregnancy your child was born with limb reduction, contact a Zoloft® birth defect lawyer for a free consultation to learn about your rights to compensation.

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