Viagra tested on pregnant women, death 11 newborns – Health

He is alarmed in Holland among dozens of women who during last few months had known the use of Viagra during pregnancy, to encourage the development of babies in their belly, after stopping the experiment decided following the premature death of 11 of the children born in the end of the treatment. The British Guardian reports it today, taking news from the Dutch media

The research was conducted in 10 hospitals, in Amsterdam and in other cities, out of a total of 93 women struggling with problem pregnancies marked by insufficient growth of the fetuses. A complication that Viagra – born as a medicine against erectile dysfunction in humans – it has been entrusted could help solve by improving the blood supply to the placenta through its dilatory effect on the vessels, as verified in a previous experiment on mice. With the exception of the fatal consequences on the lungs of 11 infants who came into the world after treatment

from where the decision, formalized in recent days by an independent Dutch control committee, d & # 39; stop all tests.