Citation

Mosonyi A, Tímár L, Czeizel E. Orv. Hetil. 1997; 138(39): 2467-2470.

Vernacular Title

A terhesseg alatti gyogyszeres ongyilkossagok idopontja es a terhessegek

Affiliation

Hetényi Géza Megyei Kórház, Nögyógyászati és Szülészeti Osztály, Szolnok.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Ifjusagi Lapkiado Vallalat)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9380386

Abstract

Suicide attempts by drug ingestion during pregnancy provides an opportunity to study the teratogenicity of large doses of drugs in human beings. Data of a population-based prospective study of all pregnant women admitted to the toxicological inpatient hospital in Budapest which is responsible for the health provision of chemical poisoned persons from a 3 million study population. Of 22,969 self-poisoned women, 645 were pregnant and 559 attempted suicide by drug ingestion during pregnancy during the study period (1985-1993). Two died. The peak of suicide attempts was found in the first month of fetal development, and its great majority resulted in a very early fetal death, the so-called chemical pregnancy. Thus 61% of suicide attempts occurred before the third month. Later pregnancies had a protective effect against suicide parallel with advanced months of fetal development.

Language: hu