A study on the effects of light treatment conducted in
Switzerland on 27 females has provided results that may give a
tool beyond antidepressants for depression treatment in pregnant
patients. The findings will be of use to doctors who are
unwilling to treat pregnant women with antidepressants for fear
damage to the foetus may occur. “A lot of people feel like
they’re in between a rock and a hard place.” This is according
to Dr. C. Neill Epperson, head of the Penn Centre for Women’s
Behavioural Wellness in Philadelphia. This doctor was not
involved in the Swiss study, yet she said it is a consistent
worry amongst the very same doctors that a lack of treatment may
lead to complication in the birth. One in Ten Research shows
that as many as one in every ten pregnant women is experiencing
the effects of depression. The depression puts them at a
heightened risk of delivering the child preterm, with the
consequent low birth weight. Seasonal Defective Disorder The
study into how light therapy can affect women in th