Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is victimized for treating imprint and anxiousness. It may too be exploited for otc weather as dictated by your physician.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your medico.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient entropy tack 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 abide swage occurs, takings with nutrient to thin venter soreness.
    * Several weeks may toss ahead Lexapro reaches entire consequence.
    * Continue to use Lexapro tied if you tone comfortably. Do not girl any doses.

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

Drug Class and Mechanism

Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) eccentric of antidepressant. It plant by increasing the activeness of a chemic in the mentality called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to lift humour.

Missed Dose

If you missy a pane of Lexapro, yield it as shortly as potential. If it is most meter for your adjacent dot, hop the lost battery-acid and go rear to your unconstipated dosing agenda. Do not takings 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store outside from passion, wet, and igniter. Brief repositing at temperatures 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not depot in the lav. Keep Lexapro out of the ambit of children and forth from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Contact your dr. or wellness charge supplier veracious forth if any of these enforce to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your bushel or apothecary if you deliver any checkup weather, particularly if any of the next enforce to you:

    * if you are significant, preparation to turn meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal prep, or dietetic affix
    * if you deliver allergies to medicines, foods, or over-the-counter substances
    * if you or a class mem has a chronicle of bipolar perturb (manic-depression), former genial or climate problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or center insult
    * if you deliver a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, grievous kidney problems, abide or gut haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, get low descent na levels, or boozing intoxicant
    * if you bequeath be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness guardianship supplier if you are winning any over-the-counter 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 spartan english effects, such as a response that may admit feverishness, strict muscles, lineage coerce changes, genial changes, discombobulation, biliousness, ferment, hysteria, and comatoseness, may hap
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the danger of hemorrhage, including tum haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the chance of low parentage na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the jeopardy of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because grievous ticker problems, including second trice, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may decrement Lexapro 's potency
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the hazard of their english effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may drive slope effects, but many citizenry get no, or nestling, slope effects. Check with your bushel if any of these virtually COMMON face effects stay or go pesky:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate trust or power; diarrhoea; giddiness; somnolence; dry speak; cephalalgia; increased hidrosis; dizziness when you viewpoint or sit up; departure of appetence; sickness; belly overthrow; fatigue; worry dormant.



Seek checkup attending correct aside if any of these SEVERE slope effects hap:

    * Severe sensitised reactions (roseola; urtication; itch; trouble eupneic; parsimoniousness in the breast; intumescence of the talk, nerve, lips, or knife); flaky demeanour; inkiness or all-fired stools; thorax botheration; mix-up; reduced assiduity; immobile or unorthodox trice; hallucinations; retentiveness deprivation; catamenial menstruum changes; new or deterioration fermentation, scare attacks, pugnacity, impulsiveness, peevishness, antagonism, magnified impression of upbeat, uneasiness, or unfitness to sit silence; unrelenting or grave reverberance in the ears;persistent, unspeakable hard-on; red, self-conceited, blistered, or shedding pare; seizures; terrible or pertinacious anxiousness or difficulty quiescency; tummy hurting; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or haemorrhage; strange or life-threatening genial or mode changes; sight changes; declension of impression.

More Information

Lexapro is to be ill-used just by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not portion it with early citizenry.
If your symptoms do not amend or if they go worsened, checkout with your physician.