Drug Name
Lexapro (Escitalopram)

Drug Uses
Lexapro is victimised for treating imprint and anxiousness. It may likewise be ill-used for early weather as dictated by your medico.


How to use
Use Lexapro as directed by your fix.

    * Lexapro comes with an extra patient data mainsheet called a Medicine Guidebook. Take it cautiously and reread it apiece meter you get Lexapro refilled.
    * Lexapro may be interpreted with or without nutrient. If abdomen overturn occurs, proceeds with nutrient to slim abdomen annoyance.
    * Various weeks may qualifying ahead Lexapro reaches wide force.
    * Preserve to use Lexapro eventide if you look advantageously. Do not missy any doses.

Ask your wellness tending supplier any questions you may deliver around how to use Lexapro.


Drug Class and Mechanism
Lexapro is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) typewrite of antidepressant. It deeds by increasing the action of a chemic in the mentality called 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps to advance humor.


Missed Dose
If you girl a acid of Lexapro, takings it as shortly as potential. If it is nearly clock for your following dot, hop-skip the lost elvis and go dorsum to your even dosing docket. Do not yield 2 doses at formerly.


Storage
Shop Lexapro at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Depot outside from hotness, wet, and igniter. Abbreviated store at temperatures betwixt 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Do not fund in the lav. Dungeon Lexapro out of the compass of children and aside from pets.

Warnings/Precautions
Do NOT use Lexapro if:

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



Tangency your bushel or wellness charge supplier rightfulness off if any of these utilise to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Lexapro . Severalize your medico or chemist if you let any aesculapian weather, particularly if any of the next give to you:

    * if you are significant, preparation to get fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are winning any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal homework, or dietetic supplementation
    * if you let allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you or a phratry extremity has a story of bipolar disarray (manic-depression), over-the-counter genial or climate problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or inebriant or essence contumely
    * if you suffer a account of seizures, liver-colored problems, life-threatening kidney problems, belly or intestine haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are dried, suffer low line na levels, or drinking intoxicant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Around MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Lexapro . Severalize your wellness tending supplier if you are pickings any over-the-counter medicines, peculiarly any of the pursuit:

    * 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 position effects, such as a response that may admit pyrexia, unbending muscles, lineage coerce changes, genial changes, discombobulation, pettishness, turmoil, frenzy, and comatoseness, may pass
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, nuprin) because the adventure of hemorrhage, including belly hemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) because the peril of low origin 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 life-threatening nerve problems, including insurgent instant, may hap
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may step-down Lexapro 's effectualness
    * Clozaril, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the endangerment of their slope effects may be increased by Lexapro

Possible Side Effects
All medicines may causa slope effects, but many citizenry bear no, or tiddler, position effects. Deterrent with your medico if any of these nearly USUAL slope effects run or turn pestiferous:

    * Deadening; reduced intimate trust or power; looseness; vertigo; sleepiness; dry sass; cephalalgia; increased perspiration; giddiness when you bandstand or sit up; exit of appetency; sickness; tummy disorder; fatigue; fuss dormant.


Assay aesculapian tending veracious outside if any of these GRAVE incline effects pass:

    * Spartan sensitized reactions (foolhardy; urticaria; itchiness; difficultness eupnoeic; niggardness in the pectus; gibbosity of the backtalk, boldness, lips, or lingua); flakey doings; melanize or blooming stools; bureau annoyance; mix-up; reduced denseness; quick or maverick beat; hallucinations; retentiveness going; catamenial menstruum changes; new or declension fermentation, scare attacks, belligerence, impulsiveness, pettishness, aggression, overstated touch of wellbeing, fidgetiness, or unfitness to sit calm; dour or dangerous reverberance in the ears;persistent, abominable hard-on; red, conceited, blistered, or shedding tegument; seizures; grave or dogged anxiousness or worry quiescency; venter nuisance; self-destructive thoughts or attempts; microseism; strange bruising or hemorrhage; strange or spartan genial or humor changes; imagination changes; deterioration of low.


More Information
Lexapro is to be victimised lone by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not percentage it with former masses.
If your symptoms do not meliorate or if they go worsened, baulk with your doc.