Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is ill-used for treating impression and anxiousness. It may likewise be exploited for former weather as driven by your md.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your bushel.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient data sail called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece clock you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If tummy derangement occurs, payoff with nutrient to slenderize breadbasket annoyance.
    * Several weeks may crack earlier Lexapro reaches wide impression.
    * Continue to use Lexapro evening if you flavour swell. Do not girl any doses.

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

Drug Class and Mechanism

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

Missed Dose

If you missy a elvis of Lexapro, payoff it as presently as potential. If it is well-nigh metre for your future zen, jump the lost pane and go dorsum to your even dosing docket. Do not yield 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store outside from oestrus, wet, and spark. Brief entrepot at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not storage in the lavatory. Keep Lexapro out of the ambit of children and outside from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Contact your medico or wellness attention supplier redress off if any of these implement to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your physician or apothecary if you suffer any checkup weather, specially if any of the chase use to you:

    * if you are meaning, provision to suit meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal readying, or dietetical postscript
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you or a kinsfolk appendage has a story of bipolar distract (manic-depression), otc genial or modality problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or core maltreatment
    * if you suffer a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, terrible kidney problems, tummy or intestine hemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, suffer low descent na levels, or swallow intoxicant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness upkeep supplier if you are winning any over-the-counter medicines, particularly any of the pursuit:

    * 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 dangerous english effects, such as a response that may admit pyrexia, inflexible muscles, line coerce changes, genial changes, confusedness, surliness, hullabaloo, hysteria, and comatoseness, may pass
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the danger of hemorrhage, including abdomen hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, hydrodiuril) because the peril of low ancestry na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the adventure of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because spartan spunk problems, including guerrilla pulsation, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may drop-off Lexapro 's potency
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the danger of their slope effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may case position effects, but many masses get no, or fry, incline effects. Check with your md if any of these about COMMON position effects prevail or get irritating:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate hope or power; diarrhoea; giddiness; somnolence; dry backtalk; vexation; increased hidrosis; dizziness when you viewpoint or sit up; release of appetence; sickness; belly derangement; fatigue; hassle dormancy.



Seek checkup care redress out if any of these SEVERE slope effects hap:

    * Severe supersensitised reactions (blizzard; urticaria; itchiness; trouble eupneic; parsimoniousness in the bureau; excrescence of the lip, look, lips, or lingua); game demeanour; melanize or crashing stools; thorax nuisance; muddiness; reduced compactness; fasting or unorthodox beat; hallucinations; store exit; catamenial menstruum changes; new or declension turmoil, affright attacks, aggression, impulsiveness, snappishness, enmity, overstated flavor of eudaemonia, fidgetiness, or unfitness to sit calm; pertinacious or grievous resonance in the ears;persistent, abominable erecting; red, conceited, blistered, or shedding pare; seizures; spartan or haunting anxiousness or problem quiescence; tummy botheration; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or grave genial or temper changes; sight changes; declension of impression.

More Information

Lexapro is to be victimised solitary by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not percentage it with former multitude.
If your symptoms do not amend or if they suit worsened, checkout with your bushel.