{"id":369,"date":"2018-07-02T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.claimsmatch.co\/?p=369"},"modified":"2022-06-18T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T22:46:21","slug":"dilantin-lawsuit-triggers-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claimsmatch.co\/dilantin-lawsuit-triggers-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilantin Lawsuit Triggers Class Action from Long-Term Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Product liability lawyers are actively investigating the potential Dilantin lawsuit and studying class action proceedings against Pfizer, the drugmaker that produces the controversial medicine.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Dilantin (also known as Phenytoin) is an anticonvulsant medicine applied to treat patients suffering from epilepsy<\/strong> or seizures<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Yet, scientists and class action attorneys have informed the public that long-term Phenytoin use may lead to birth defects<\/strong> and may cause serious medical complications<\/strong> that can permanently alter a person\u2019s movement, speech, and coordination.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Excessive Dilantin treatments can further produce debilitating pain, scarring, blindness, organ failure and sometimes death.<\/span>
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Class Action Attorneys Scrutinize Dilantin Applications<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For over seventy years, Pfizer has sold Dilantin as a prescription drug for grand mal seizure treatment and as an off-label medication for patients suffering from headaches, depression, panic attacks and anxiety. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Phenytoin\u2019s endurance in the marketplace has allowed products liability attorneys and their scientific research teams to examine the drug\u2019s effect on patients, and most lawyers agree the scientific evidence that followed is of significant public interest: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Both technical and contingent evidence cited in medical journals<\/a> and established in the Dilantin lawsuit suggest when Phenytoin\u2019s active ingredient decreases abnormal electrical activity in the brain, one\u2019s body becomes more prone to acquire Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phenytoin or Dilantin Side Effects Produce SJS and TEN <\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SJS is a disorder that alters skin tissue and mucous membranes and often produces painful blistering rashes and skin burns. The condition escalates to TEN when rashes reach over thirty percent of the body. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Physicians warn that Dilantin SJS and TEN reactions are serious medical conditions that call for emergency care and hospitalization<\/a> with treatment in an Intensive Care Unit or Burn Center.<\/span>
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Dilantin SJS responses start with a fever, sore throat and jade; ulcers and skin lesions around the mouth or genital regions soon follow with painful rashes or debilitating blisters typically developing throughout the body as the condition gets worse.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Other SYS and TEN symptoms from Phenytoin reactivity may include: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n