Depakote Drug Overdose During Pregnancy Can Cause Birth Defects

Depakote is a widely used drug marketed by Abbott Laboratories  to treat long-term manic and depressive parts of rapidly-cycling bipolar disorder. Other uses of Depakote include treating patients for migraines, epilepsy and chronic pain associated with nervous system diseases (neuropathy).  Depakote side effects however including birth defects has cause the use of this Bi-Polar drug to be questioned. Depakote lawsuits have been filed due to many children born with the severe birth defects See:Depakote Spina Bifida. http://www.depakote-side-effects.com/depakote_class_action_lawsuit

• Spina bifida
• Skeletal defects
• Intrauterine growth retardation
• Neural tube malformations
• Death of fetus
• Cleft palate
• Undescended testes
• Hand structure malformations
• Hypospadias (a urethra opening in the wrong place)
• Pulmonary stenosis
• Hypoplastic right heart