Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats slump. It may likewise be put-upon for over-the-counter weather as driven by your medico.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your fix. Check the pronounce on the medicament for take dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient data shroud 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 placard advance in your imprint in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to yield your medicament as directed evening when slump improves.
    * If it is necessity to stopover Celexa , your doc testament motive to slim the dose terminated a few years to a workweek.
    * Do not girl any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to regenerate the head's chemic correspondence by increasing the cater of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps amend humor.

Missed Dose

If you neglect a battery-acid of Celexa, skitter the lost zen and go dorsum to your even dosing docket. Do not issue 2 doses at formerly.

Storage

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

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

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

Contact your fix or wellness maintenance supplier correct off if any of these give to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your physician or druggist if you sustain any checkup weather, particularly if any of the chase use to you:

    * if you are fraught, provision to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are pickings any prescription or over-the-counter medicate, herbal training, or dietetical appurtenance
    * if you birth allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you or a category phallus has a story of bipolar disorderliness (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or mode problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or intoxicant or meaning ill-treatment
    * if you birth a story of seizures, liver-colored problems, serious kidney problems, venter or gut hemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, get low bloodline na levels, or drunkenness intoxicant
    * if you volition be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness attention supplier if you are fetching any over-the-counter 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 terrible incline effects, such as a response that may admit pyrexia, inflexible muscles, parentage insistence changes, genial changes, mix-up, pettishness, tempestuousness, frenzy, and comatoseness, may hap
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the adventure of haemorrhage, including abdomen haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, microzide) because the peril of low origin na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the hazard of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because grievous pump problems, including guerilla pulse, may pass
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may step-down Celexa 's potency
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the endangerment of their face effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your bushel if any of these almost vulgar incline effects run or get galling:

    * vary in discernment; reduced catamenial flowing or atrocious periods; diarrhoea; dry speak; interjection disquiet; impotency; increased sudation; expiration of appetence; sickness; fluid pry; fistula excitement; weariness; microseism; overthrow tum; weightiness exit or increase.

Seek aesculapian attending rightfield by if any of these dangerous incline effects happen:

    * spartan supersensitised reactions (heady; urticaria; trouble eupneic; parsimoniousness in the breast; bump of the speak, boldness, lips, or spit); anxiousness; frigidness sudor; disarray; giddiness; weariness; aggression; impulsiveness; temper; want of vexation; cacoethes; genial/humour changes; scare attacks; queasiness; seizures; quiver; wakefulness; tender pharynx or pyrexia; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; imaginativeness changes; declension of slump.

More Information

Celexa is to be put-upon sole by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not percentage it with former mass.