Debate Over Antidepressants In Pregnancy Ongoing WebMD

Highlights

• Since the introduction of Prozac in 1987, millions of pregnant women have taken SSRI antidepressants.
• 1 in 10 infertility patients were taking an SSRI for depression.
• Mounting evidence linking SSRI use during pregnancy with poor birth outcomes, including miscarriage, early delivery

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Question: Is it due to some combination of the following?:

1. Low vitamin D ==> depression
2. Depression ==> low vitamin D
3. Unknown ==> low vitamin D and depression

See also Vitamin D Life

• Depression 50 percent more likely if low vitamin D in early pregnancy – Aug 2012
• Psychosis in dark skinned people 3.5 X higher if low level of vitamin D – May 2012
• Less than 20 ng vitamin D increases depression by 80 percent – Dec 2010
• Overview Pregnancy and Vitamin D
• All items in depression and vitamin D 215 items
• Pregnant blacks 50 pcnt more likely to be depressed if 3 ng lower vitamin D – July 2012
• Much less depression if more than 43 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2012
• All items in category Interactions and vitamin D 102 items
• Low vitamin D intake associated with depressive symptoms in senior women – Oct 2011
• Hypothesis: Some Mental Illness could be treated or prevented with vitamin D
• Much less depression if higher than 43 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2012
• Psychosis in dark skinned people 3.5 X higher if low level of vitamin D – May 2012
• Suicide 2X more likely with low vitamin D (in military) – Jan 2013

See also web

• Depression ==> premature birth 96% increase in premature birth if ani-depressants in late pregnancy; April 2014
  No mention of low vitamin D