Comments on: Birth Defect Risk Linked to Antibiotics Like Bactrim and Macrobid

By: Holli

Holli — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:15:14 +0000

I was on both these antibiotics for both of my pregnancies as they kept telling my I had UTI. It was found out after that I never even had a UTI, I have interstitial cystitis and is often misdiagnosed during pregnancy as frequent UTI. My boys were both born with a deformity in their chest which may cause heart issues and will probably need surgery later in life. I am very interested in finding out more about this and if this may be linked. Doctors had no explanation for the issue. I want to know how this happened.

By: cvw

cvw — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:31:54 +0000

My daughter was born 23 years ago with arthrogryposis. I have been plagued throughout my lift with chronic UTIs and I took macrobid throughout my pregnancy.

By: CJT

CJT — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:01 +0000

Tammy, I can’t imagine how hard that must have been to go through that. I can completely understand your desire to seek answers for your daughter’s condition, but I don’t agree with you that anyone is negligent. No one knew about this 7 years ago, and the jury is still out on this. It was a poorly designed study whose results are questionable at best. There is no definitive proof that Bactrim or Macrobid are actually to blame, and like the website says the infection they treated posed a much greater risk than the drug.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:19:58 +0000

My daughter was born with a heart defect, and I was on Macrobid the entire pregnancy for an UTI. I have often wondered if this drug played a factor in this….Seven years later, this does not surprise me. But, it definitely saddens me. So, David, unless you have a child born with a defect and have gone through the heartache of the procedures to correct the defect, and the possibility of other procedures, you probably should have little to say. If there is someone who is responsible for giving my daughter a heart defect…..then, they should pay for their negligence.

By: David

David — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:44:16 +0000

This sort of study is the essence of “junk science”. It should never have seen the light of day. All it will do is frighten women away from needed treatment and create more lawsuits. Any study that depends upon people trying to remember what they took or didn’t take many months later is, in a word, bogus. A great disservice has been done by its publication. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s finding exposure on a legal web site.

By: monica

monica — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:48:25 +0000

I have been diagnose with uti at 9 weeks of pregnacy; now i am 16 weeks pregnat my OB prescribed me macrobid 100mg. I am reading that microbid causes side birth deffects.

By: ingrid

ingrid — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:11:40 +0000

I would like to know if gastroschisis is on the list of defects from the nitrofurantoin. I had four bladder infections during pregnancy, my first at 6 weeks and was treated for it. This is the exact time frame for gastroschisis to occur. My 5 month old daughter has just completed her 3rd surgery thanks to gastroschisis. It would be nice to know this could have easily been prevented.