Accutane and Pregnancy

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In the months after accutane’s commercial release in 1982 it became evident that something was seriously wrong. By 1983 a number of public consumer groups began a petition asking the FDA to force La Roche to include warning information with the drug.

These concerns escalated to cause another petition calling for an Accutane ban in 1988. Current statistics suggest that about 25 percent of Accutane pregnancy births result in serious birth defects and 50 percent of the Accutane pregnancy births result in mental disability.

Guidelines for Females

  1. Do not take Accutane if you are pregnant or if you could become pregnant during treatment or for one month after you stop taking Accutane.
  2. Accutane is in the FDA pregnancy category X. This means that Accutane is known to cause severe birth defects in an unborn baby.
  3. It can also cause miscarriage, premature birth, or death of the baby.
  4. Two reliable forms of birth control must be used at the same time

Check for more information, side effects and legacy of Accutane.
accutane-info.com

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Re: Accutane and Pregnancy

I'm not sure why this is being posted here or now. These days if accutane is prescribed it is prescribed with birth control pills.

Anyway, this should probably move to Life 2.

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Re: Accutane and Pregnancy

You really need to keep up with these things on your own, in USA but even more so in Pak...my SIL went thru her first pregnancy having blood-type mismatch with her baby - she was o-neg, baby was o-pos. No big deal, I mean obstetrics 101 teaches to give the Rhogam shot to avoid trouble. Her doc was oblivious and baby was born with severe jaundice, to the point that he needed transfusions. Aside from the fact that the baby could have been permanently affected, he could have died. Sad to say that patients really need to know as much as the docs these days.