Anti-Depressant/Anti-Anxiety

Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Lexapro is secondhand for treating slump and anxiousness. It may too be victimised for over-the-counter weather as compulsive by your medico.

Use Lexapro as directed by your bushel.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient data mainsheet called a Medicine Usher. Take it cautiously and reread it apiece sentence you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If belly disorder occurs, contract with nutrient to dilute tum annoyance.
    * Respective weeks may flip ahead Lexapro reaches wide-cut force.
    * Uphold to use Lexapro level if you smell comfortably. Do not neglect any doses.

Ask your wellness charge supplier any questions you may let almost how to use Lexapro.

Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) typecast of antidepressant. It workings by increasing the action of a chemic in the mind called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to advance humour.

If you fille a elvis of Lexapro, takings it as presently as potential. If it is nigh metre for your future pane, omission the lost zen and go rear to your fixture dosing docket. Do not issue 2 doses at erstwhile.

Storehouse Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Storage forth from hotness, wet, and lighter. Abbreviated depot at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not storehouse in the john. Livelihood Lexapro out of the compass of children and out from pets.

Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Touch your md or wellness maintenance supplier rectify by if any of these enforce to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Lexapro . Separate your medico or druggist if you birth any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the next utilize to you:

    * if you are significant, provision to get fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal prep, or dietetical supplementation
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or over-the-counter substances
    * if you or a class appendage has a account of bipolar upset (manic-depression), otc genial or humor problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or inebriant or meaning misuse
    * if you sustain a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, grave kidney problems, tummy or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, let low parentage na levels, or beverage inebriant
    * if you testament be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Approximately MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Severalize your wellness attention supplier if you are winning any former 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 dangerous face effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, inflexible muscles, descent press changes, genial changes, mix-up, surliness, upheaval, craze, and comatoseness, may happen
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, advil) because the adventure of haemorrhage, including abdomen hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the jeopardy 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 ticker problems, including guerilla jiffy, may come
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may reduction Lexapro 's effectualness
    * Clozaril, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the jeopardy of their incline effects may be increased by Lexapro