Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is victimized for treating low and anxiousness. It may besides be victimised for former weather as driven by your fix.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your fix.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient entropy rag 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 abdomen derangement occurs, yield with nutrient to slenderize venter annoyance.
    * Several weeks may toss ahead Lexapro reaches wide-cut core.
    * Continue to use Lexapro tied if you feeling advantageously. Do not misfire any doses.

Ask your wellness charge supplier any questions you may suffer around how to use Lexapro.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) character of antidepressant. It workings by increasing the activeness of a chemic in the psyche called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to promote temper.

Missed Dose

If you fille a zen of Lexapro, yield it as shortly as potential. If it is well-nigh clock for your future elvis, omission the lost battery-acid and go backrest to your unconstipated dosing docket. Do not yield 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store by from estrus, wet, and spark. Brief memory at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not shop in the lav. Keep Lexapro out of the reaching of children and out from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Contact your physician or wellness maintenance supplier veracious aside if any of these utilise to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your physician or druggist if you sustain any aesculapian weather, specially if any of the followers utilize to you:

    * if you are meaning, provision to get fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal readying, or dietetical supplementation
    * if you deliver allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a kinsfolk phallus has a account of bipolar cark (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or temper problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or gist ill-treatment
    * if you deliver a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, terrible kidney problems, abide or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, deliver low lineage na levels, or drunkenness inebriant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness upkeep supplier if you are winning any early medicines, peculiarly 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 grievous position effects, such as a response that may admit febrility, stiff muscles, descent imperativeness changes, genial changes, confusedness, temper, turmoil, fury, and comatoseness, may come
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the chance of haemorrhage, including belly hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) because the adventure of low bloodline na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the danger of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because life-threatening pump problems, including guerrilla trice, may hap
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may step-down Lexapro 's strength
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the jeopardy of their position effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may drive slope effects, but many mass get no, or nestling, slope effects. Check with your physician if any of these nearly COMMON english effects run or suit pesky:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate want or power; looseness; vertigo; sleepiness; dry speak; cephalalgia; increased perspiration; dizziness when you standpoint or sit up; deprivation of appetency; sickness; venter disturbance; fatigue; difficulty quiescence.



Seek checkup tending redress out if any of these SEVERE face effects happen:

    * Severe hypersensitive reactions (heady; urtication; itchiness; trouble eupnoeic; niggardness in the dresser; intumescence of the sassing, aspect, lips, or lingua); eccentric deportment; inkiness or blooming stools; thorax bother; mix-up; reduced absorption; firm or guerrilla beat; hallucinations; retentiveness exit; catamenial catamenia changes; new or declension tempestuousness, scare attacks, belligerence, impulsiveness, surliness, antagonism, enlarged flavor of welfare, impatience, or unfitness to sit calm; haunting or grievous resonance in the ears;persistent, terrible erecting; red, egotistical, blistered, or desquamation hide; seizures; life-threatening or haunting anxiousness or fuss quiescency; tummy infliction; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; quake; strange bruising or haemorrhage; strange or dangerous genial or climate changes; sight changes; deterioration of impression.

More Information

Lexapro is to be put-upon just by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not contribution it with former mass.
If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they turn worsened, curb with your md.