Open AccessPsychotropic Drugs in Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Anirban Jana
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bengal journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2348-9227
DOI - 10.51332/bjp.2015.v20.i1.46
Subject(s) - discontinuation , pregnancy , dilemma , psychiatry , medicine , sword , face (sociological concept) , psychology , medical emergency , sociology , genetics , biology , social science , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , operating system
Psychiatrists often have to deal with the dilemma of whether or not to continue psychotropic medications in their patients during pregnancy. The fact that a relapse of symptoms arising out of discontinuation is often more dangerous than the usual response with violence, suicide presenting in higher rates (needless to say that harms the mother as well as the fetus) on the face of the risks of teratogenicity of almost all the drugs in offer make the situation no different from a double edged sword.