Clozapine 100 MG Tablet Health Feed

Dear,
all your daughter's behaviour are due to schizophrenia. Some persons like your daughter becomes treatment resistant. So clozapine is prescribed. The psychiatrist will increase clozapine slowly to the required dose. Cbt can be add on but not the sole treatment. It needs a series of regular homeworks. Your daughter may not be capable of doing them at the present situation. Ect will be added if she becomes suicidal, not now when she is attending college. Meditation will not be of any hel...more

Dear user
anxiety and depression can best be treated successfully if along with medicines, you also take counseling. Medicines alone will not be fully effective. Our distorted thoughts are the root cause of stress, anxiety, depression. Counseling take care of our distorted thoughts and helps you to focus on the positives in your life. So, you should seek counseling for better results.

Dear User,
Urmila will get used to these drugs in 1-2 weeks time. Once schizophrenia symptoms are relieved, she will be able to tolerate the dizziness and sleepiness better.

Dear Mr. Dhawan, Any particular molecule cant be claimed as superior as response varies from person to person. One agent that is good for a particular person may not work that well for other. However, clozapine is one molecule that is considered superior to all others in resistant cases and is generally given when other medicines fail. Partial agonists such as aripiprazole have a less side effects but sometimes efficacy is found wanting. Your patient will need evaluation and appropriate suggesti...more

The excessive salivation may be sue to dental caries and need a dental check up . Other causes are excessive starch intake, gastroesophageal reflux disease, pancreatitis, liver disease, serotonin syndrome, oral ulcers, and oral infections. Medications that can cause saliva overproduction include clozapine, pilocarpine, ketamine, and potassium chlorate.

Hello,Your daughter is suffering from bipolar disorder and ocd. A thing which is commonly observed in such patients is when they are taking a class of drugs (a typical antipsychotics like risperidone, olanzapine, clozapine), they continue to have ocd symptoms despite taking medicines for the same. Ask your doctor if that could be the case and what can be done about it. Don't alter drug doses on your own. Consult privately for more help. Take care.

People with disorganized schizophrenia often use the same treatments as those with other types of schizophrenia: medication and counselling or therapy. The most common medication used to treat schizophrenia is an antipsychotic medication. There is no clear antipsychotic drug of choice for schizophrenia. Clozapine is the most effective medication but is not recommended as first-line therapy because it has a high burden of adverse effects, requires regular blood work, and has not outperformed othe...more

Amisulpride, clozapine and certain newer antipsychotics on a particular dosage can act on negative symptoms, which varies between every individual. Combining with psycho-social rehabilitation helps mostly, else medicines alone cannot give full benefits. Despite these sometimes there is no improvement in few.

Sexual dysfunction is a common condition in patients taking antipsychotics, and is the most bothersome symptom and adverse drug effect, resulting in a negative effect on treatment compliance. It is known that hyperprolactinemia is a major cause of sexual dysfunction. Based on the blockade of dopamine d2 receptors, haloperidol, risperidone, and amisulpride are classed as prolactin-elevating antipsychotics, while olanzapine, clozapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and aripiprazole are classed as prola...more

Dear lybrate-user,
taking medicines for the long term and no improvement needs a review of diagnosis. Now that we know her counts reduced. We need to know why it is reduced. If it is drug-induced, it will recover after stopping the drug. Bone marrow test will not show that it is drug-induced. But the report will show the type of count reduction, like neutropenia. Except for clozapine, other psychiatric drugs (mirtaz, qutipin and tofisopam) rarely cause low blood count. In clozapine, the psyc...more