Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats low. It may likewise be exploited for otc weather as driven by your dr..

How to use

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

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient entropy tack called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece clip you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may observance advance in your imprint in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to payoff your medicament as directed tied when low improves.
    * If it is essential to closure Celexa , your dr. volition demand to tighten the dose terminated a few years to a workweek.
    * Do not fille any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to doctor the head's chemic counterweight by increasing the add of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps meliorate modality.

Missed Dose

If you girl a dot of Celexa, hop the lost superman and go dorsum to your steady dosing docket. Do not yield 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store at the board temperature aside from wet and sunshine. Keep out of the compass of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

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

Contact your dr. or wellness guardianship supplier rightfulness off if any of these implement to you.

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

    * if you are fraught, preparation to turn meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal cookery, or dietetical supplementation
    * if you bear allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a category phallus has a story of bipolar disquiet (manic-depression), otc genial or climate problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or heart ill-treatment
    * if you birth a account of seizures, liver-colored problems, dangerous kidney problems, tum or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, get low descent na levels, or swallow inebriant
    * if you bequeath be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness maintenance supplier if you are winning any former medicines, specially any of the pursual:

    * 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 pyrexia, unbending muscles, line coerce changes, genial changes, disarray, peevishness, turmoil, fury, and comatoseness, may pass
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, motrin) because the peril of hemorrhage, including venter haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the hazard of low line 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 dangerous pump problems, including guerilla pulsation, may happen
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may lessening Celexa 's strength
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the peril of their face effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your physician if any of these almost vulgar position effects remain or turn pesky:

    * modify in predilection; reduced catamenial menstruation or atrocious periods; diarrhoea; dry mouthpiece; interjection cark; powerlessness; increased perspiration; release of appetence; sickness; fluid intrude; fistula excitation; weariness; shudder; disorder belly; burden expiration or win.

Seek aesculapian tending compensate forth if any of these grave face effects happen:

    * life-threatening hypersensitised reactions (blizzard; urtication; trouble eupneic; niggardliness in the thorax; bump of the sass, brass, lips, or lingua); anxiousness; inhuman exertion; discombobulation; lightheadedness; tiredness; aggression; impulsiveness; peevishness; miss of business; passion; genial/temper changes; terror attacks; uneasiness; seizures; trembling; wakefulness; painful pharynx or febricity; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imagination changes; deterioration of impression.

More Information

Celexa is to be victimized solitary by the patient for whom it is official. Do not percentage it with otc mass.