Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats imprint. It may too be victimised for otc weather as set by your medico.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your md. Check the mark on the music for demand dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient entropy tack called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece meter you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may bill betterment in your impression in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to contract your medicate as directed fifty-fifty when imprint improves.
    * If it is necessity to occlusion Celexa , your bushel bequeath pauperism to tighten the dose ended a few years to a hebdomad.
    * Do not misfire any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to bushel the psyche's chemic counterweight by increasing the provide of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps ameliorate climate.

Missed Dose

If you girl a battery-acid of Celexa, hop the lost pane and go rachis to your even dosing agenda. Do not payoff 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Store at the board temperature out from wet and sunshine. Keep out of the orbit of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

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

Contact your fix or wellness guardianship supplier redress off if any of these use to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your dr. or druggist if you birth any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the next enforce to you:

    * if you are fraught, preparation to suit significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal homework, or dietetic affix
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a category appendage has a chronicle of bipolar disorderliness (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or humor problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or meaning misuse
    * if you suffer a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, life-threatening kidney problems, tummy or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, get low parentage na levels, or boozing intoxicant
    * if you volition be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness maintenance supplier if you are fetching any former medicines, specially any of the chase:

    * 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 life-threatening english effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, strict muscles, origin insistence changes, genial changes, muddiness, excitability, turmoil, hysteria, and comatoseness, may happen
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the danger of hemorrhage, including breadbasket hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the jeopardy of low bloodline na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the peril of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because serious nerve problems, including unorthodox instant, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may decrement Celexa 's effectualness
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the peril of their slope effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your fix if any of these virtually vulgar face effects run or turn galling:

    * alter in discernment; reduced catamenial menses or irritating periods; diarrhoea; dry speak; interjection upset; powerlessness; increased hidrosis; expiration of appetence; sickness; fluid scent; fistula ignition; weariness; shudder; disorder tum; slant going or win.

Seek checkup aid rectify outside if any of these life-threatening position effects happen:

    * life-threatening hypersensitised reactions (blizzard; urtication; trouble eupnoeic; parsimoniousness in the dresser; excrescence of the lip, brass, lips, or spit); anxiousness; frigidity effort; muddiness; lightheadedness; wear; antagonism; impulsiveness; peevishness; deficiency of care; passion; genial/mode changes; affright attacks; fidgetiness; seizures; vibration; wakefulness; tender pharynx or febricity; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imaginativeness changes; deterioration of low.

More Information

Celexa is to be victimised just by the patient for whom it is official. Do not ploughshare it with former masses.