werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (05/15/85)
A recent case reported in the British journal Lancet reported a case of an unusual birth defect in a mother who had taken massive doses of Vitamin B6 during the early stages of pregnancy. (She was also very light, so the body weight corrected dosage was very high.) The author also noted at least two similar cases also reported in the last few years. Do I believe this? Well, it's something to think about, but the answer is probably no. Even the author noted that the connection was anecdotal and not controlled. However, when something like this occurred with Benedictine, the drug company was in court for a decade. So for all the macrobioticists on the net who can give names of people undergoing miraculous recoveries, I present this as case 1. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!
sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer) (05/15/85)
Interestingly, "Bendectin", the morning-sickness nostrum implicated
(but vindicted) in birth defects, contained vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
as one of its components. The other was some sort of antihistamine
(doxylamine, I think.)
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/Steve Dyer
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