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Heroin babies

We are also well aware of the addiction of newborns to heroin if their mothers were took the drug during pregnancy. So-called "cocaine babies" are restlessness, nervous and irritable. Fetal nicotine effects can be seen in low birth weight neonates. We are still not sure about the teratogenicity of heroin and cocaine. The latter can cause abortion and so could very well be teratogenic. [Pg.25]

A 23-year-old pregnant woman developed antepartum bleeding at 35 weeks and a tonic-clonic convulsion and hypothermia at 39 weeks, having used heroin 4 hours before. She had further tonic-clonic seizures, became obtunded, and required intubation. She had occasional runs of ventricular bigeminy. A cesarean section was performed. The neonate had poor respiratory effort and required ventilation. Blood chemistry suggested inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone, acute renal insufficiency, and acute pancreatitis. She and the baby recovered after 2 weeks. [Pg.597]

Heroin is usually cut with baking soda, powdered milk, baby powder, sugar, starch, or quinine, but has also known to be cut with lidocaine, curry powder, strychi-nine, and even laundry detergent. Law enforcement officials in New York report the existence of heroin cut with a rat poison from Santa Domingo called Tres Pasos (meaning three steps ). Three is the number of steps the mice take before dying after exposure to the poison. [Pg.237]

Pinto F, Torrioli MG, Casella G, Tempesta E, Fundaro C. Sleep in babies born to chronically heroin addicted mothers. A follow up study Drug Alcohol Depend 1988 21(l) 43-7. [Pg.585]

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, one of the worst results of the ill effects of patent medicine use in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the number of healthy babies who became addicted to morphine, heroine, opium, or alcohol. How did babies develop these addictions Well, imagine being a mother or father with an infant who won t stop crying. The baby shrieks night and day. You never get to sleep. You can t rest. You re exhausted and your child is miserable. As a parent, if you could find a cure for your baby s misery, would you buy it Of course you would, just as thousands did at the turn of the twentieth century. [Pg.43]

Alcohol, barbiturates, and narcotics—such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl), amobarbital (Amytal), diazepam (Valium), codeine, heroin, methadone, morphine, propoxyphene (Darvon)—that are used during pregnancy can lead to harmful effects on the newborn. Use of these dmgs during pregnancy can create an addiction in the newborn. The baby will go into withdrawal from the drug when they are born. This can result in hyperactivity, crying, irritability, seizures and even sudden death. [Pg.78]


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