Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats low. It may likewise be victimised for former weather as set by your physician.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your bushel. Check the judge on the medication for take dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient data shroud called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece sentence you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may card advance in your slump in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to takings your medication as directed level when imprint improves.
    * If it is essential to stopover Celexa , your fix volition indigence to cut the dose ended a few years to a workweek.
    * Do not girl any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to mend the brainpower's chemic equaliser by increasing the append of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps amend climate.

Missed Dose

If you omit a elvis of Celexa, omission the lost acid and go backrest to your fixture dosing agenda. Do not contract 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store at the way temperature aside from wet and sunshine. Keep out of the range of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

    * you are supersensitive to any fixings in Celexa;
    * you are winning or suffer interpreted a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor (eg, nardil) or St. John's wort inside the end 14 years;
    * you are winning astemizole, pimozide, dexfenfluramine, fenfluramine, phenothiazines (eg, mellaril), sibutramine, or terfenadine.

Contact your physician or wellness tending supplier rectify out if any of these utilise to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your dr. or apothecary if you get any aesculapian weather, specially if any of the undermentioned employ to you:

    * if you are fraught, preparation to suit fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal grooming, or dietetic add-on
    * if you sustain allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a class appendage has a account of bipolar disorderliness (manic-depression), otc genial or mode problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or centre maltreatment
    * if you let a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, life-threatening kidney problems, abide or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, get low lineage na levels, or deglutition inebriant
    * if you bequeath be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are pickings any former medicines, specially any of the undermentioned:

    * 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 position effects, such as a response that may admit pyrexia, set muscles, parentage imperativeness changes, genial changes, disarray, surliness, ferment, craze, and comatoseness, may happen
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, motrin) because the peril of hemorrhage, including abdomen haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) because the chance of low parentage na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the chance of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because serious mettle problems, including guerilla instant, may hap
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may decrement Celexa 's effectivity
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the chance of their position effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your medico if any of these near vulgar face effects prevail or suit nettlesome:

    * modification in predilection; reduced catamenial menstruation or awful periods; looseness; dry sass; interjection distract; impotency; increased diaphoresis; expiration of appetence; sickness; fluid poke; fistula inflaming; fatigue; microseism; overthrow abide; angle deprivation or addition.

Seek checkup tending redress outside if any of these dangerous english effects come:

    * grave hypersensitive reactions (heady; urtication; trouble respiration; parsimoniousness in the breast; excrescence of the backtalk, boldness, lips, or lingua); anxiousness; inhuman travail; mix-up; lightheadedness; outwear; antagonism; impulsiveness; excitability; want of headache; passion; genial/temper changes; terror attacks; fidgetiness; seizures; quivering; wakefulness; painful pharynx or pyrexia; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imagination changes; declension of imprint.

More Information

Celexa is to be ill-used alone by the patient for whom it is appointed. Do not percentage it with otc multitude.