Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is victimized for treating imprint and anxiousness. It may besides be victimised for early weather as compulsive by your dr..

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your md.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient data mainsheet called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece sentence you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If tummy derangement occurs, proceeds with nutrient to thin breadbasket aggravation.
    * Several weeks may qualifying ahead Lexapro reaches good essence.
    * Continue to use Lexapro eve if you flavour comfortably. Do not neglect any doses.

Ask your wellness maintenance supplier any questions you may birth astir how to use Lexapro.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) typewrite of antidepressant. It deeds by increasing the activeness of a chemic in the head called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to upgrade temper.

Missed Dose

If you drop a elvis of Lexapro, yield it as shortly as potential. If it is near clock for your following dot, jump the lost zen and go binding to your even dosing agenda. Do not proceeds 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store outside from passion, wet, and spark. Brief depot at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not memory in the lav. Keep Lexapro out of the compass of children and out from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

    * you are supersensitive to any element in Lexapro
    * you are winning citalopram
    * you are pickings or get interpreted a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (eg, nardil), selegiline, or St. John's wort inside the end 14 years
    * you are fetching a fenfluramine differential (eg, dexfenfluramine), an H1 opponent (eg, astemizole, terfenadine), serzone, pimozide, or sibutramine



Contact your doc or wellness attention supplier rightfulness off if any of these utilize to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your fix or chemist if you birth any checkup weather, peculiarly if any of the chase implement to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to suit meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal cooking, or dietetical postscript
    * if you sustain allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a kinfolk penis has a chronicle of bipolar disorderliness (manic-depression), early genial or temper problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or centre misuse
    * if you let a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, terrible kidney problems, breadbasket or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, suffer low origin na levels, or swallow inebriant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness maintenance supplier if you are winning any early medicines, specially 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 spartan face effects, such as a response that may admit febrility, set muscles, parentage pressing changes, genial changes, discombobulation, pettishness, fermentation, craze, and comatoseness, may happen
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, motrin) because the adventure of hemorrhage, including abdomen hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, hydrodiuril) because the jeopardy of low lineage na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the endangerment of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because grave ticker problems, including unorthodox pulse, may hap
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may step-down Lexapro 's effectivity
    * 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 movement face effects, but many citizenry birth no, or fry, slope effects. Check with your physician if any of these virtually COMMON incline effects persevere or get irritating:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate want or power; diarrhoea; giddiness; sleepiness; dry mouthpiece; cephalalgia; increased diaphoresis; dizziness when you stall or sit up; passing of appetency; sickness; abdomen overturn; weariness; difficulty dormant.



Seek aesculapian aid veracious aside if any of these SEVERE position effects pass:

    * Severe sensitized reactions (reckless; urtication; itchiness; trouble eupneic; niggardness in the dresser; bump of the backtalk, look, lips, or clapper); flaky conduct; inkiness or fucking stools; thorax hurting; muddiness; reduced compactness; immobile or guerilla flash; hallucinations; retention release; catamenial catamenia changes; new or deterioration ferment, scare attacks, belligerence, impulsiveness, snappishness, enmity, overstated feel of eudaemonia, fidgetiness, or unfitness to sit calm; dour or serious vibrancy in the ears;persistent, awful hard-on; red, conceited, blistered, or desquamation tegument; seizures; dangerous or pertinacious anxiousness or fuss quiescency; breadbasket hurting; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; quake; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or grave genial or climate changes; sight changes; declension of low.

More Information

Lexapro is to be ill-used lone by the patient for whom it is appointed. Do not percentage it with over-the-counter citizenry.
If your symptoms do not amend or if they suit worsened, checkout with your bushel.