Beyond a lifelong and debilitating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), among the many horrific Accutane side effects are birth defects for babies of women who took Accutane during pregnancy. Accutane also can cause depression and even suicidal impulses among the pregnant women themselves.
Due to this, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has supported for five years a mandatory risk management program for Accutane.
Dubbed iPLEGE, it’s meant to lessen and perhaps eliminate exposure to Accutane’s harmful active ingredient, Isotretinoin, among pregnant women and their unborn babies.
Certainly, reducing acne cannot be a high priority during pregnancy, especially when prescription drugs to achieve this could harm unborn infants. That’s why the iPLEDGE program exists, mandating that patients, prescribing physicians, pharmacies and wholesalers all be registered for using or dispensing Accutane with Isotretinoin.
This potentially harmful drug can come in the form of Accutane or generic Accutane drugs such as Sotret, Amnesteem or Claravis, and it also can be called Isotretinion tablets.
The goal is to steer pregnant women away from using Accutane by warning them of its dangers, and to ensure that those involved in their care issue such warnings.
Of course, any person is subject to Accutane side effects injuries. Some of the worst are bowel diseases that are incurable, debilitating and lifelong. They include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis -- diseases whose Accutane victims may need an Accutane lawsuit.
If you or a family member suffers an IBD such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, or has needed to have the colon removed surgically due to digestive disorders, and if this followed taking acne drug Accutane, alert Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com today. The nationwide attorney service can provide you with a skilled and experienced defective drug lawyer for a possible Accutane lawsuit.
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