Parenteral: IM: Usual dosage: 5 to 10 mg IM, repeated every 3 to 4 hours as necessary
Tell all of your health care providers and lab workers that you take this medicine (prochlorperazine tablets)
It's not a first-choice medication because it can cause serious side effects, such as extreme sleepiness, falls, and uncontrolled muscle movements
Compazine Dosage
Prochlorperazine is also used to control severe nausea and Prochlorperazine is used to treat nervous, emotional, and mental conditions (eg, schizophrenia) and non-psychotic anxiety
Compazine, Compazine Spansules (prochlorperazine) dosing, indications, interactions, adverse effects, and more 5-10 mg PO q6-8hr; slowly titrate dose q2-3days; not to exceed 150 mg/day 10-20 Compazine prochlorperazine maleate Drug Monograph Black Box Warnings Adult Dosing Peds Dosing Contraindications/Cautions Drug Interactions Adverse Reactions
Generic name: prochlorperazine maleate Dosage form: tablet, film coated Drug classes: Phenothiazine antiemetics, Phenothiazine antipsychotics
For nausea, the anti-emetic ondansetron (Zofran) is very effective, but one of the side effects is headache
When prochlorperazine is used with cancer chemotherapeutic drugs, vomiting as a sign of the toxicity of these agents may be obscured by the antiemetic
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However, Compazine is not the first drug to be used in therapy for most 50 patients with non-psychotic anxiety, because certain risks associated with its use are not shared 51 by common alternative treatments (e
The antiemetic drugs are classified according to their primary action; some agents affect multiple receptors
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Generic versions of prochlorperazine may still be available
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This medication is used to treat severe nausea and vomiting from certain causes (for example, after surgery or cancer treatment)
Prochlorperazine suppository is used to control severe nausea and vomiting
Tardive Dyskinesia
dose of one or both drugs, use lowest effective doses and shortest duration of concomitant tx: combo may incr
Some are used also to control agitation in certain patients, severe nausea and vomiting, severe hiccups, and moderate to severe pain in some hospitalized patients
Promethazine is a prescription medication with many uses, such as treatment or prevention of nausea, vomiting, and allergy symptoms
Child 12–17 years
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Antihistamines, metoclopramide and prochlorperazine are less effective in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
A total of 672 drugs are known to interact with Compazine
Dementia: Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death
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