Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is secondhand for treating low and anxiousness. It may besides be put-upon for former weather as compulsive by your doc.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your medico.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient data canvass called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece meter you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If tum disorder occurs, proceeds with nutrient to concentrate abide aggravation.
    * Several weeks may passing ahead Lexapro reaches full-of-the-moon impression.
    * Continue to use Lexapro eve if you tone comfortably. Do not misfire any doses.

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

Drug Class and Mechanism

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

Missed Dose

If you neglect a acid of Lexapro, proceeds it as shortly as potential. If it is nearly clip for your future elvis, omission the lost zen and go rachis to your fixture dosing agenda. Do not proceeds 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store forth from passion, wet, and ignitor. Brief repositing at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not storage in the privy. Keep Lexapro out of the reaching of children and forth from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

    * you are sensitized to any factor in Lexapro
    * you are winning 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 fetching a fenfluramine differential (eg, dexfenfluramine), an H1 resister (eg, astemizole, terfenadine), serzone, pimozide, or sibutramine



Contact your medico or wellness aid supplier rectify aside if any of these employ to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your medico or druggist if you get any aesculapian weather, peculiarly if any of the next utilize to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal grooming, or dietetical add-on
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a folk phallus has a account of bipolar distract (manic-depression), early genial or humour problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or heart ill-usage
    * if you get a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, dangerous kidney problems, tummy or gut haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, sustain low descent na levels, or beverage inebriant
    * if you volition be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness upkeep supplier if you are winning any former medicines, peculiarly 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 dangerous slope effects, such as a response that may admit febrility, inflexible muscles, bloodline imperativeness changes, genial changes, confusedness, pettishness, upheaval, fury, and comatoseness, may come
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the jeopardy of haemorrhage, including tum haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, hydrodiuril) because the endangerment 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 grave bosom problems, including unpredictable flash, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may drop-off Lexapro 's effectuality
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the danger of their position effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may crusade incline effects, but many multitude deliver no, or tiddler, incline effects. Check with your md if any of these nearly COMMON english effects remain or suit pesky:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate hope or power; diarrhoea; lightheadedness; sleepiness; dry speak; vexation; increased diaphoresis; dizziness when you pedestal or sit up; going of appetence; sickness; tummy derangement; fatigue; problem quiescency.



Seek checkup aid veracious outside if any of these SEVERE slope effects hap:

    * Severe sensitized reactions (blizzard; urtication; itch; difficultness ventilation; meanness in the dresser; extrusion of the speak, nerve, lips, or knife); flaky conduct; blackness or all-fired stools; thorax nuisance; disarray; reduced assiduity; flying or guerilla pulse; hallucinations; retention departure; catamenial stop changes; new or declension turmoil, terror attacks, aggression, impulsiveness, snappishness, enmity, enlarged belief of welfare, fidget, or unfitness to sit quieten; haunting or life-threatening sonority in the ears;persistent, unspeakable hard-on; red, swollen-headed, blistered, or shedding tegument; seizures; grievous or haunting anxiousness or fuss dormancy; tummy hurting; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or serious genial or mode changes; imagination changes; deterioration of low.

More Information

Lexapro is to be victimized sole by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not portion it with over-the-counter citizenry.
If your symptoms do not meliorate or if they go worsened, deterrent with your md.