Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride (HCL) Medicine - Information, Side effects and uses of Chlorpromazine
Brand name: Chloractil, Largactil
Type of drug: Anti-psychotic
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) is an antipsychotic drug of low-capacity employed to treat schizophrenia. Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) is employed in the treatment of the disorganized thought and psychotic. Moreover helped to treat perceptions distort (for example hallucinations or illusions.)
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) must also sometimes treat the children psychotics. It can be employed to treat divide hoquets or prolonged nausea. Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) is also prescribed for the short-term treatment of the serious behavioral disorders in the children, including the explosive hyperactivity and the combativeness; and for the phase hyperenergetic of the maniac-depressive disease (severely exaggerated modes).
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) is also employed to order nausea and the vomiting, and to relieve agitation and the apprehension before surgery. It is employed like helps in the treatment of tetanus, and is prescribed for the unverifiable hoquets and the acute intermittent porphyria (attacks of the abdominal pain engraves sometimes accompanied by the psychiatric disturbances, cramps in the arms and the legs, and weakness of muscle).
Uses:
Used to treat schizophrenia, mania and other conditions which result in confused or abnormal behaviour.
How it works:
Has an anti-psychotic effect which reduces aggression and promotes more tranquil behaviour.
Possible side effects:
Drowsiness, increase in weight,. Blurred vision, dizziness and tremors.
Contraindications
States of coma or decreased due to the depressors of CNS; dyscrasias of blood; depression of marrow; damage of liver. Over-sensitiveness with the chlorpromazine. The allergenicity transversely with others phenothiazines can occur. If are avoided in the children or of the teenagers with signs or suggestive symptoms of the syndrome of Reye. Its effect antiemetic can mask the signs and its effect CNS can be confused with the signs of the syndrome or other encephalopathies of Reye.
Other information on Chlorpromazine:
Avoid exposure to sunlight. Take drug exactly as prescribed.
CAUTIONS
Children : This drug is either not recommended for children, or is recommended only for hildren above a certain age.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding : This drug is either not recommended for use by women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or the precise
effects are not known and it should therefore only be used with caution and under medical advice.
Alcohol : Alcohol should not be consumed, or only with caution – after medical advice has been sought - while you are taking this drug.
Driving and operating machinery : This drug may have some effect on your driving ability, so it is advisable not to drive or operate machinery while taking it.
How to take Chlorpromazine?
Do not allow touching your skin with the liquid medicine. Chlorpromazine should be taken only if prescribed by a doctor. Do not open capsules, swallow them whole.
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