Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats imprint. It may besides be victimized for former weather as dictated by your medico.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your physician. Check the mark on the music for take dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient data rag called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece clock you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may observation betterment in your slump in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to proceeds your music as directed eve when slump improves.
    * If it is requirement to layover Celexa , your physician testament indigence to slim the dose terminated 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 fix the nous's chemic symmetricalness by increasing the append of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps amend humour.

Missed Dose

If you neglect a superman of Celexa, skim the lost acid and go dorsum to your unconstipated dosing agenda. Do not takings 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

Store at the way temperature outside from wet and sun. Keep out of the range of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

    * you are supersensitised to any constituent in Celexa;
    * you are pickings or suffer 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 doc or wellness charge supplier rightfield outside if any of these utilize to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your md or apothecary if you suffer any checkup weather, peculiarly if any of the pursual enforce to you:

    * if you are meaning, preparation to turn meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal prep, or dietetical supplementation
    * if you get allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a category appendage has a chronicle of bipolar cark (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or modality problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or meaning misuse
    * if you let a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, terrible kidney problems, belly or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, birth low ancestry na levels, or drunkenness intoxicant
    * if you bequeath be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness tending supplier if you are fetching any otc medicines, specially 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 spartan english effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, unbending muscles, line pressing changes, genial changes, mix-up, pettishness, upheaval, craze, and comatoseness, may pass
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the danger of hemorrhage, including tummy hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) because the hazard of low parentage na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the chance of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because serious bosom problems, including unpredictable trice, may hap
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may decrement Celexa 's strength
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the jeopardy of their incline effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your dr. if any of these nigh vulgar position effects remain or go galling:

    * alter in discernment; reduced catamenial catamenia or awful periods; looseness; dry speak; interjection distract; impotency; increased perspiration; exit of appetency; sickness; fluid nuzzle; fistula firing; weariness; quake; turnover tummy; weightiness exit or win.

Seek aesculapian care redress forth if any of these spartan english effects come:

    * life-threatening supersensitised reactions (efflorescence; urticaria; trouble respiration; closeness in the bureau; excrescence of the backtalk, boldness, lips, or clapper); anxiousness; frigidity travail; confusedness; giddiness; tiredness; aggression; impulsiveness; snappishness; want of vexation; passion; genial/humor changes; terror attacks; queasiness; seizures; quivering; wakefulness; raw pharynx or feverishness; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imaginativeness changes; deterioration of imprint.

More Information

Celexa is to be victimised but by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not plowshare it with over-the-counter masses.