No one is hurt. P has no physical symptoms, but is distraught for weeks. The general rule means that if P, by virtue of his exposure to a certain substance, suffers an increased likelihood of a particular disease, P may generally not recover for the purely emotional harm of being at risk. This causes P to have a greatly increased risk of throat cancer. In these courts, so long as P observes the danger or injury to X, and X is a close relative of P, P may recover.
P is born with serious birth defects resulting from the drug.
Suppose, however, that the injury occurred before the child was even conceived , but that some effect from the injury is nonetheless suffered by the later-conceived child. Here, courts are split as to whether the child may recover. The drug damages the mother's reproductive system. P's mother can clearly recover from D for her own injuries, but courts are split as to whether P can recover against D for these pre-conception events. But almost no courts have allowed the child to make such a wrongful life recovery.