Prozac
Prozac
Prozac is one of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants in the world. It is the brand name of fluoxetine. All over the world, more than fifty four million people have consumed it. This drug facilitates people with depression by maximizing the accessibility of serotonin in the brain cells. Scientists strongly believe that serotonin affects most of the activities in the brain, which includes mood regulation. For the treatment of depression, Prozac was first approved in Belgium in the year 1986 and in 1987 in the United States. Since then, the drug has been permitted and commercialized in more than ninety countries worldwide. Physicians use Prozac to treat, safely and effectively, anxiety, bulimia, clinical depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, and premenstrual-dysphoric disorder.
Patients with depression complaints have an imbalance of neurotransmitters in brain. Most of the physicians strongly believe that the severity of depression is due to the imbalance of serotonin. Prozac may useful in correcting the imbalance of serotonin by facilitating the supply of serotonin to the brain cells. Besides affecting serotonin, most of the antidepressants seem to affect many neurotransmitters of the brain cells; however, Prozac affects selectively only serotonin. In most of the countries, antidepressants are not recommended for the patients less than 24 years old; however, Prozac is the only FDA-approved antidepressant used in the treatment of depression in children.
Prozac should not be taken along with the medicines like isocarboxazid, phenelzine, pimozide, rasagiline, selegiline, thioridazine, or tranylcypromine. Prozac must be taken only under the supervision of a physician. In some cases, while taking the drug some side effects may arise! The side effect may be anxiety, behavior or mood changes, panic attacks, trouble in sleeping, or if the patient feels agitated, aggressive, hostile, hyperactive, impulsive, irritable, more depressed, restless, or has conceptions about committing suicide or hurting oneself. In case of getting such side effect, the patient must consult hit/her physician immediately.
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