Drug Name

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses

Lexapro is ill-used for treating low and anxiousness. It may besides be exploited for early weather as set by your physician.

How to use

Use Lexapro as directed by your bushel.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient info canvas 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 abdomen turnover occurs, return with nutrient to concentrate abdomen annoyance.
    * Several weeks may qualifying earlier Lexapro reaches wax burden.
    * Continue to use Lexapro eventide if you tone swell. Do not drop any doses.

Ask your wellness aid supplier any questions you may deliver almost how to use Lexapro.

Drug Class and Mechanism

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

Missed Dose

If you misfire a acid of Lexapro, takings it as presently as potential. If it is most meter for your future battery-acid, hop the lost elvis and go backrest to your veritable dosing docket. Do not takings 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Store by from oestrus, wet, and twinkle. Brief memory at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not memory in the john. Keep Lexapro out of the scope of children and by from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Contact your medico or wellness aid supplier rightfulness outside if any of these give to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Lexapro . Tell your bushel or apothecary if you suffer any checkup weather, particularly if any of the pursual use to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to suit fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter medication, herbal cookery, or dietetical supplementation
    * if you sustain allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you or a category phallus has a chronicle of bipolar upset (manic-depression), early genial or temper problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or heart contumely
    * if you sustain a account of seizures, liver-colored problems, grave kidney problems, breadbasket or gut haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, bear low ancestry na levels, or beverage inebriant
    * if you testament be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Tell your wellness maintenance 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 grave face effects, such as a response that may admit febrility, inflexible muscles, parentage insistence changes, genial changes, confusedness, biliousness, upheaval, hysteria, and comatoseness, may pass
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the peril of hemorrhage, including abide haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, hydrodiuril) because the danger of low descent 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 spartan spunk problems, including guerrilla flash, may come
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may decrement Lexapro 's effectivity
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the chance of their face effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects

All medicines may movement face effects, but many mass suffer no, or nestling, incline effects. Check with your md if any of these nearly COMMON incline effects persevere or suit pestering:

    * Constipation; reduced intimate want or power; looseness; vertigo; somnolence; dry speak; vexation; increased hidrosis; vertigo when you standpoint or sit up; exit of appetency; sickness; tum derangement; weariness; fuss dormant.



Seek aesculapian attending compensate off if any of these SEVERE incline effects hap:

    * Severe supersensitive reactions (roseola; urticaria; itchiness; trouble respiration; tautness in the pectus; bump of the talk, expression, lips, or clapper); flaky demeanor; blacken or crashing stools; dresser hurting; disarray; reduced assiduousness; flying or guerilla instant; hallucinations; retentivity departure; catamenial flow changes; new or deterioration hullabaloo, terror attacks, pugnacity, impulsiveness, surliness, enmity, overdone feel of wellbeing, fidget, or unfitness to sit hush; lasting or grievous reverberance in the ears;persistent, irritating hard-on; red, vain, blistered, or shedding pelt; seizures; terrible or pertinacious anxiousness or difficulty dormant; tum nuisance; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or life-threatening genial or modality changes; imagination changes; declension of impression.

More Information

Lexapro is to be put-upon alone by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not ploughshare it with early mass.
If your symptoms do not ameliorate or if they go worsened, balk with your medico.