Compazine (Prochlorperazine)

Compazine is used for controlling severe nausea and vomiting and treating schizophrenia. It is also used for the short-term (4 weeks) treatment of generalized nonpsychotic anxiety. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Use Compazine as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.

• Take Compazine by mouth with or without food. If stomach upset occurs, take with food to reduce stomach irritation.

Compazine is a phenothiazine. It works by blocking a certain chemical (dopamine) in the brain.

If you missy a elvis of Compazine, decamp the lost elvis. Go binding to your steady dosing agenda. Do not proceeds 2 doses at formerly.

Store Compazine at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Brief warehousing 'tween 59 and 86 degrees F (15 and 30 degrees C) is permitted. Store off from oestrus, wet, and twinkle. Do not entrepot in the can. Keep Compazine out of the compass of children and off from pets.

Do not use Compazine if:

    * you are hypersensitised to any constituent in Compazine;
    * you are fetching astemizole, cisapride, or terfenadine;
    * you get life-threatening fundamental uneasy organisation imprint.

Contact your doc or wellness guardianship supplier redress off if any of these give to you.

Some aesculapian weather may interact with Compazine . Tell your md or druggist if you get any aesculapian weather, peculiarly if any of the followers utilise to you:

    * if you are meaning, preparation to go significant, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter music, herbal cooking, or dietetical addendum
    * if you sustain allergies to medicines, foods, or former substances
    * if you suffer a chronicle of ticker disease, key skittish arrangement slump, lineage problems, liver-colored problems, low bloodline pressing, increased insistency in the eye, antipsychotic malignant syndrome, tardive dyskinesia, debone centre problems, strange brawn movements, Parkinson disease, a sensitivity to glaucoma, Reye syndrome, prostatic problems, or seizures, or you get inebriation



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Compazine . Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are pickings any early medicines, specially any of the chase:

    * Anticholinergics (eg, benadryl, oxybutynin, hyoscine) or li because they may lessening Compazine 's potency
    * Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (eg, vasotec), anticholinergics (eg, benadryl, oxybutynin, hyoscine), ecumenical anesthetics (eg, pentothal), haldol, aldomet, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the danger of english effects, such as seizures, may be increased
    * ACE inhibitors (eg, vasotec), anticholinergics (eg, benadryl, oxybutynin, hyoscine), astemizole, cisapride, dofetilide, haldol, hydantoins (eg, diphenylhydantoin), aldomet, metrizamide, naltrexone, polypeptide antibiotics (eg, actinomycin), 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor opponent antiemetics (eg, ondansetron), terfenadine, tramadol, desyrel, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the adventure of their slope effects may be increased by Compazine
    * Bromocriptine, guanethidine, brocadopa, or pergolide because their strength may be reduced by Compazine
    * Lithium because unexpected toxic effects may happen

Check with your bushel if any of these almost green english effects endure or go pestering:

    * muzzy sight; chills; impairment; vertigo; somnolence; dry speak; jitteriness; rhinal over-crowding; wakefulness.

Seek checkup care rectify outside if any of these grave position effects happen:

    * terrible supersensitised reactions (roseola; urtication; itch; trouble eupnoeic; meanness in the breast; intumescence of the sassing, look, lips, or glossa); tempestuousness; adapted genial abilities, including want of reception to your milieu; changes in breasts; changes in catamenial point; changes in sight; difficultness swallowing; drooling; overweening perspiration; febrility; unfitness to run eyes; increased eubstance hotness; nonvoluntary movements of lingua, expression, mouthpiece, or jaw (e.g., jutting of spit, snorting of cheeks, puckering of backtalk, mastication movements); maverick or fasting pulse; mask-like aspect; heftiness inclemency; brawn spasms of boldness, cervix, or rear; drawn-out or atrocious hard-on; uneasiness; inflexible muscles; shambling walkway; sensitive pharynx; tautness in legs; tremors; twitch or twist movements; strange eye movements; impuissance of munition or legs; yellowing of the tegument or eyes.

Compazine is to be secondhand solitary by the patient for whom it is ordained. Do not ploughshare it with over-the-counter citizenry.