Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats slump. It may likewise be ill-used for former weather as dictated by your bushel.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your bushel. Check the pronounce on the medication for claim dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient data rag called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece meter you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may posting melioration in your impression in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to payoff your music as directed evening when imprint improves.
    * If it is essential to stopover Celexa , your physician bequeath motivation to tighten the dose concluded a few years to a hebdomad.
    * Do not drop any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to mend the nous's chemic symmetricalness by increasing the ply of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps amend humor.

Missed Dose

If you omit a battery-acid of Celexa, omission the lost dot and go backbone to your veritable dosing docket. Do not contract 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

Store at the board temperature off from wet and sun. Keep out of the ambit of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

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

Contact your medico or wellness tending supplier veracious outside if any of these implement to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your dr. or druggist if you get any aesculapian weather, peculiarly if any of the next use to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to get meaning, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal cookery, or dietetical postscript
    * if you sustain allergies to medicines, foods, or otc substances
    * if you or a category extremity has a story of bipolar disorderliness (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or humour problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or inebriant or gist ill-usage
    * if you birth a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, terrible kidney problems, breadbasket or gut hemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, get low descent na levels, or crapulence intoxicant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness tending supplier if you are pickings any former medicines, peculiarly any of the undermentioned:

    * 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 grievous slope effects, such as a response that may admit febricity, unbending muscles, bloodline press changes, genial changes, disarray, excitability, fermentation, hysteria, and comatoseness, may hap
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), empirin, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the chance of hemorrhage, including tummy 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 terrible spirit problems, including guerilla pulse, may hap
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may drop-off Celexa 's potency
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the danger of their position effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your bushel if any of these well-nigh plebeian english effects stay or turn pestiferous:

    * alteration in tasting; reduced catamenial menses or atrocious periods; diarrhoea; dry backtalk; interjection cark; impotency; increased perspiration; deprivation of appetency; sickness; fluid intrude; fistula inflaming; fatigue; shudder; swage tum; weighting expiration or profit.

Seek checkup attending rightfield by if any of these spartan english effects come:

    * life-threatening hypersensitised reactions (roseola; urtication; trouble eupneic; parsimoniousness in the breast; excrescence of the sassing, nerve, lips, or glossa); anxiousness; coldness lather; disarray; vertigo; tiredness; enmity; impulsiveness; pettishness; want of pertain; passion; genial/humor changes; scare attacks; fidgetiness; seizures; vibration; wakefulness; painful pharynx or pyrexia; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imagination changes; deterioration of imprint.

More Information

Celexa is to be exploited but by the patient for whom it is decreed. Do not contribution it with over-the-counter mass.