Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats low. It may besides be victimized for former weather as driven by your doc.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your md. Check the mark on the medication for claim dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient entropy canvass called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece metre you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may placard betterment in your slump in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to yield your medicament as directed eve when impression improves.
    * If it is requisite to layover Celexa , your doc leave want to tighten the dose concluded a few years to a workweek.
    * Do not drop any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to rejuvenate the encephalon's chemic counterbalance by increasing the provide of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps meliorate climate.

Missed Dose

If you neglect a acid of Celexa, skitter the lost battery-acid and go cover to your veritable dosing docket. Do not return 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store at the board temperature by from wet and sun. Keep out of the ambit of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

    * you are hypersensitive to any constituent in Celexa;
    * you are fetching or get interpreted a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor (eg, nardil) or St. John's wort inside the end 14 years;
    * you are pickings astemizole, pimozide, dexfenfluramine, fenfluramine, phenothiazines (eg, mellaril), sibutramine, or terfenadine.

Contact your physician or wellness guardianship supplier rightfield out if any of these use to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your medico or chemist if you deliver any checkup weather, particularly if any of the pursual enforce to you:

    * if you are meaning, provision to turn meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal cooking, or dietetic affix
    * if you deliver allergies to medicines, foods, or over-the-counter substances
    * if you or a folk extremity has a account of bipolar upset (manic-depression), early genial or humor problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or inebriant or core ill-usage
    * if you let a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, grave kidney problems, abdomen or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, birth low origin na levels, or boozing intoxicant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness upkeep supplier if you are winning any early medicines, specially any of the followers:

    * 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 life-threatening english effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, inflexible muscles, descent insistence changes, genial changes, mix-up, excitability, tempestuousness, frenzy, and comatoseness, may come
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the jeopardy of hemorrhage, including abdomen haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) because the chance of low ancestry 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 serious mettle problems, including guerrilla pulse, may pass
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may lessening Celexa 's effectualness
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the chance of their slope effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your fix if any of these about vulgar position effects persevere or get nettlesome:

    * vary in predilection; reduced catamenial menses or awful periods; diarrhoea; dry talk; interjection perturb; powerlessness; increased hidrosis; expiration of appetency; sickness; fluid poke; fistula kindling; weariness; quake; disturbance breadbasket; weighting passing or profit.

Seek checkup attending rightfulness forth if any of these life-threatening slope effects hap:

    * grievous hypersensitive reactions (heady; urtication; difficultness eupneic; niggardliness in the pectus; bulge of the backtalk, aspect, lips, or clapper); anxiousness; cold-blooded fret; disarray; vertigo; fag; enmity; impulsiveness; temper; want of business; passion; genial/climate changes; terror attacks; impatience; seizures; palpitation; wakefulness; afflictive pharynx or febricity; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; sight changes; deterioration of slump.

More Information

Celexa is to be victimized lone by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not plowshare it with former mass.