Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats low. It may besides be victimized for early weather as compulsive by your physician.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your md. Check the pronounce on the medicate for demand dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient data sail 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 card betterment in your slump in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to return your medicate as directed tied when slump improves.
    * If it is essential to layover Celexa , your medico leave motivation to dilute the dose o'er a few years to a hebdomad.
    * Do not girl any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to fix the mind's chemic counterbalance by increasing the add of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps amend humour.

Missed Dose

If you drop a dot of Celexa, skim the lost acid and go rear to your fixture dosing docket. Do not yield 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storage

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

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any fixings in Celexa;
    * you are winning or let interpreted a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor (eg, nardil) or St. John's wort inside the finish 14 years;
    * you are fetching astemizole, pimozide, dexfenfluramine, fenfluramine, phenothiazines (eg, mellaril), sibutramine, or terfenadine.

Contact your md or wellness maintenance supplier veracious outside if any of these enforce to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your md or druggist if you get any aesculapian weather, specially if any of the next enforce to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to get fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal readying, or dietetic postscript
    * if you let allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you or a kinfolk extremity has a account of bipolar distract (manic-depression), former genial or modality problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or essence contumely
    * if you let a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, terrible kidney problems, abide or gut hemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, suffer low lineage na levels, or drinking intoxicant
    * if you volition be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness charge supplier if you are pickings any early medicines, particularly 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 serious english effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, strict muscles, line press changes, genial changes, disarray, excitability, upheaval, fury, and comatoseness, may hap
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the peril of hemorrhage, including venter haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) 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 spartan mettle problems, including second beat, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may decrement Celexa 's effectivity
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the chance of their face effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your dr. if any of these nearly commons face effects endure or get galling:

    * variety in appreciation; reduced catamenial menstruation or unspeakable periods; looseness; dry backtalk; interjection upset; impotency; increased diaphoresis; passing of appetency; sickness; fluid pry; fistula excitement; fatigue; shudder; swage tummy; burden release or advance.

Seek aesculapian care veracious by if any of these life-threatening slope effects happen:

    * grave supersensitised reactions (blizzard; urticaria; difficultness respiration; closeness in the breast; bulge of the lip, cheek, lips, or glossa); anxiousness; inhuman exertion; confusedness; lightheadedness; outwear; enmity; impulsiveness; peevishness; miss of headache; cacoethes; genial/climate changes; terror attacks; fidgetiness; seizures; vibration; wakefulness; tender pharynx or febrility; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imagination changes; declension of imprint.

More Information

Celexa is to be secondhand but by the patient for whom it is official. Do not part it with over-the-counter citizenry.