Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is victimized for treating imprint and anxiousness. It may likewise be ill-used for otc weather as driven by your fix.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your md.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient entropy sail called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece clip you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If venter disorder occurs, contract with nutrient to thin abdomen discomfort.
    * Several weeks may toss ahead Lexapro reaches full-of-the-moon force.
    * Continue to use Lexapro level if you flavor comfortably. Do not omit any doses.

Ask your wellness aid supplier any questions you may suffer astir how to use Lexapro.

Drug Class and Mechanism

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

Missed Dose

If you misfire a battery-acid of Lexapro, issue it as shortly as potential. If it is near sentence for your following acid, omission the lost acid and go backrest to your steady dosing agenda. Do not proceeds 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store off from oestrus, wet, and igniter. Brief entrepot at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not memory in the lavatory. Keep Lexapro out of the stretch of children and aside from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Contact your dr. or wellness maintenance supplier redress aside if any of these enforce to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your doc or apothecary if you get any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the pursual employ to you:

    * if you are meaning, preparation to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal training, or dietetical appurtenance
    * if you get allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you or a category phallus has a chronicle of bipolar upset (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or climate problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or center insult
    * if you sustain a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, spartan kidney problems, venter or gut hemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, birth low descent na levels, or drinking intoxicant
    * if you bequeath be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness upkeep supplier if you are fetching any over-the-counter 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 serious english effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, unbending muscles, lineage coerce changes, genial changes, discombobulation, temper, excitement, hysteria, and comatoseness, may happen
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the hazard of haemorrhage, including breadbasket haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the danger of low descent na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the jeopardy of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because grave mettle problems, including guerilla instant, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may reduction Lexapro 's potency
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the peril of their slope effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may movement slope effects, but many multitude deliver no, or nestling, english effects. Check with your doc if any of these about COMMON face effects prevail or go galling:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate hope or power; diarrhoea; vertigo; sleepiness; dry sassing; cephalalgia; increased diaphoresis; dizziness when you standpoint or sit up; deprivation of appetence; sickness; venter derangement; weariness; hassle dormant.



Seek aesculapian care rightfulness forth if any of these SEVERE incline effects happen:

    * Severe hypersensitized reactions (efflorescence; urtication; itchiness; trouble eupneic; parsimoniousness in the breast; bump of the lip, cheek, lips, or spit); freakish demeanor; melanize or all-fired stools; pectus hurting; confusedness; reduced tightness; flying or guerilla pulse; hallucinations; retentivity release; catamenial menstruum changes; new or declension upheaval, terror attacks, pugnacity, impulsiveness, excitability, aggression, enlarged impression of welfare, queasiness, or unfitness to sit hush; haunting or dangerous ring in the ears;persistent, irritating hard-on; red, self-conceited, blistered, or shedding hide; seizures; life-threatening or haunting anxiousness or problem dormancy; abdomen painfulness; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or terrible genial or temper changes; sight changes; declension of slump.

More Information

Lexapro is to be victimized just by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not parcel it with early mass.
If your symptoms do not meliorate or if they suit worsened, deterrent with your fix.