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Precautions to be Exercised While Taking Fluoxetine-2

Patient/caregiver was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking fluoxetine as follows: Notify your doctor of any unresolved and worsening anxiety and depressive symptoms or continuing unpleasant side-effects, so that, your dosage on the medication could be revised. Observe compliance with all physician visits and periodical lab draws ordered, while taking fluoxetine, for an update on improvement/deterioration with symptoms of mood disorder and side-effects developed. This will also allow your physician to make appropriate [...]

Precautions to be Exercised While Taking Fluoxetine-1

Patient/caregiver was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking fluoxetine as follows: Fluoxetine use, especially on empty stomach, can result in common general constitutional symptoms such as, nausea and vomiting. Taking dose of fluoxetine with a glass of water, after having some food or a snack can help avoid having unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms with the medication. Fluoxetine use can induce extreme diarrhea. Proper hydration measures and compliance with daily fluid intake and rehydration measures [...]

Contraindications for Fluoxetine Use-2

Patient/caregiver was educated on contraindications for using Fluoxetine as follows: Fluoxetine carries significant risk for obstruction to the flow of aqueous humor, increasing the intraocular pressure, eye pain, headache, blurred vision with haloes around light, and compromised vision. So, fluoxetine use is contraindicated in individuals with history of glaucoma, especially the closed-angle glaucoma. Fluoxetine can interact with many antibacterial and antifungal antibiotics, antiarrhythmic medications, antidepressants, and antipsychotic medications, resulting in development or aggravation of underlying [...]

Contraindications for Fluoxetine Use-1

Patient/caregiver was educated on contraindications for using Fluoxetine as follows: Fluoxetine can interact with a number of other medications and can precipitate serious reactions. If you are being newly started on fluoxetine, discuss with your physician regarding all other medications you are currently taking and their safety with fluoxetine. Also, if you have been taking fluoxetine for long, discuss with your physician regarding your history of fluoxetine intake, when you are being started on any [...]

Side Effects of Fluoxetine-5

Patient/caregiver was educated on the side effects of using Fluoxetine as follows: Serotonin syndrome Fluoxetine use, especially along with a few other antidepressants, such as, imipramine, citalopram, and sertraline, can significantly increase the serotonin levels in the body and lead to development of serotonin syndrome. Individuals can present with mania, excitement, hallucinations, agitation, insomnia, pounding heartbeat, very rapid heart rate, overactive reflexes, and diarrhea. Metabolic side-effects Fluoxetine can inhibit enzyme systems in the liver that [...]