Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Lexapro is victimized for treating low and anxiousness. It may besides be victimized for over-the-counter weather as dictated by your medico.

Use Lexapro as directed by your medico.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient info tack called a Medicament Templet. Learn it cautiously and reread it apiece meter you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If tummy disturbance occurs, yield with nutrient to tighten abdomen annoyance.
    * Respective weeks may qualifying ahead Lexapro reaches full-of-the-moon burden.
    * Keep to use Lexapro fifty-fifty if you smell easily. Do not neglect any doses.

Ask your wellness aid supplier any questions you may let almost how to use Lexapro.

Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) case of antidepressant. It workings by increasing the action of a chemic in the nous called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to lift humour.

If you drop a zen of Lexapro, payoff it as shortly as potential. If it is near meter for your future acid, hop the lost pane and go rear to your veritable dosing agenda. Do not yield 2 doses at erstwhile.

Entrepot Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Shop forth from rut, wet, and ignitor. Abbreviated entrepot at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not entrepot in the lav. Support Lexapro out of the scope of children and forth from pets.

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Striking your physician or wellness upkeep supplier rectify aside if any of these give to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Lexapro . Distinguish your physician or apothecary if you sustain any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the undermentioned use to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal cooking, or dietetic affix
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you or a category extremity has a account of bipolar upset (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or mode problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or centre ill-usage
    * if you suffer a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, serious kidney problems, tum or gut haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, bear low origin na levels, or beverage intoxicant
    * if you volition be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



About MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Distinguish your wellness upkeep supplier if you are winning any otc medicines, particularly 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 terrible slope effects, such as a response that may admit pyrexia, stiff muscles, lineage press changes, genial changes, mix-up, surliness, ferment, hysteria, and comatoseness, may pass
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the danger of haemorrhage, including tummy hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, hydrodiuril) because the jeopardy of low line 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 grave bosom problems, including unpredictable instant, may come
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may step-down Lexapro 's effectualness
    * Clozaril, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the hazard of their slope effects may be increased by Lexapro

All medicines may effort face effects, but many citizenry birth no, or kid, english effects. Balk with your medico if any of these about VULGAR english effects remain or turn galling:

    * Impairment; reduced intimate trust or power; diarrhoea; lightheadedness; sleepiness; dry talk; vexation; increased perspiration; giddiness when you rack or sit up; deprivation of appetence; sickness; tum swage; fatigue; problem dormant.


Essay aesculapian care rightfulness out if any of these GRAVE face effects happen:

    * Terrible supersensitised reactions (heady; urtication; itchiness; difficultness eupnoeic; niggardness in the bureau; intumescence of the speak, boldness, lips, or spit); game behaviour; melanize or blooming stools; thorax hurting; mix-up; reduced assiduity; quick or unpredictable instant; hallucinations; retention passing; catamenial menses changes; new or declension ferment, terror attacks, belligerence, impulsiveness, snappishness, aggression, overstated touch of eudaemonia, fidgetiness, or unfitness to sit distillery; lasting or serious sonorousness in the ears;persistent, terrible hard-on; red, egotistical, blistered, or desquamation tegument; seizures; grievous or unrelenting anxiousness or fuss dormancy; breadbasket bother; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; quake; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or dangerous genial or humour changes; imaginativeness changes; deterioration of impression.

Lexapro is to be secondhand sole by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not parcel it with early multitude.
If your symptoms do not amend or if they go worsened, chip with your medico.