Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 72146

Pyridoxine/doxylamine

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Edward Morello

Liberal Democrat — West Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people impacted in utero by their mother's use of Debendox during pregnancy.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Debendox was originally available as a triple combination of doxylamine succinate, an antihistamine, pyridoxine hydrochloride, a form of vitamin B6, and dicyclomine hydrochloride, an antispasmodic. The product was later reformulated to remove dicyclomine ...
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