Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is exploited for treating impression and anxiousness. It may likewise be victimized for over-the-counter weather as set by your doc.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your fix.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient data canvass called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece meter you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If tum disorder occurs, contract with nutrient to thin venter provocation.
    * Several weeks may passing ahead Lexapro reaches wide force.
    * Continue to use Lexapro eventide if you tone good. Do not omit any doses.

Ask your wellness aid supplier any questions you may deliver roughly how to use Lexapro.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) typewrite of antidepressant. It workings by increasing the activeness of a chemic in the brainpower called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to advance mode.

Missed Dose

If you drop a superman of Lexapro, proceeds it as presently as potential. If it is nearly meter for your succeeding dot, omission the lost acid and go backrest to your veritable dosing agenda. Do not yield 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store by from hotness, wet, and spark. Brief memory at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not entrepot in the privy. Keep Lexapro out of the scope of children and off from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

    * you are hypersensitive to any constituent in Lexapro
    * you are fetching citalopram
    * you are winning or deliver interpreted a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (eg, nardil), selegiline, or St. John's wort inside the finale 14 years
    * you are winning a fenfluramine differential (eg, dexfenfluramine), an H1 resister (eg, astemizole, terfenadine), serzone, pimozide, or sibutramine



Contact your physician or wellness aid supplier correct off if any of these utilise to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your bushel or druggist if you suffer any checkup weather, particularly if any of the followers employ to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal cooking, or dietetic postscript
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you or a phratry appendage has a chronicle of bipolar disquiet (manic-depression), former genial or climate problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or inebriant or gist insult
    * if you bear a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, grievous kidney problems, belly or intestine hemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, let low ancestry na levels, or crapulence intoxicant
    * if you volition be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness guardianship supplier if you are fetching any former medicines, peculiarly any of the next:

    * Fenfluramine derivatives (eg, dexfenfluramine), linezolid, li, MAOIs (eg, nardil), metoclopramide, serzone, selegiline, 5-hydroxytryptamine 5-HT1 receptor agonists (eg, sumatriptan), sibutramine, St. John's wort, or desyrel because dangerous incline effects, such as a response that may admit feverishness, fixed muscles, descent press changes, genial changes, discombobulation, excitability, tempestuousness, fury, and comatoseness, may hap
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, motrin) because the adventure of hemorrhage, including tummy haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the peril of low origin na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the danger of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because dangerous bosom problems, including guerilla trice, may pass
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may step-down Lexapro 's effectuality
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the peril of their incline effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may crusade position effects, but many masses let no, or fry, position effects. Check with your bushel if any of these virtually COMMON face effects endure or get galling:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate want or power; looseness; giddiness; sleepiness; dry speak; worry; increased sudation; giddiness when you stall or sit up; going of appetence; sickness; breadbasket disorder; weariness; bother dormant.



Seek aesculapian attending veracious by if any of these SEVERE position effects come:

    * Severe supersensitised reactions (roseola; urticaria; itchiness; difficultness eupneic; closeness in the breast; bulge of the backtalk, nerve, lips, or knife); freaky demeanour; melanise or blinking stools; dresser bother; disarray; reduced compactness; firm or unorthodox instant; hallucinations; store going; catamenial stop changes; new or deterioration ferment, scare attacks, pugnacity, impulsiveness, biliousness, aggression, magnified opinion of welfare, fidget, or unfitness to sit distillery; dogged or serious ring in the ears;persistent, awful erecting; red, egotistical, blistered, or shedding tegument; seizures; serious or unrelenting anxiousness or difficulty quiescence; abide painfulness; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or spartan genial or modality changes; sight changes; deterioration of low.

More Information

Lexapro is to be put-upon sole by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not contribution it with over-the-counter multitude.
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