In this episode, I discuss a medication known as lurasidone (Latuda).
Everybody welcome back to drug talk is always am your host gary campbell today we’re gonna discuss the medication known as laura said own its brand name isla to des and before i talk about the medication itself just keep in mind that this channel is for information purposes only and not to be used as a source for recommendations for your personal healthcare and
Quickly if at any time during this video you find the information to be valuable please consider leaving a like on the video as it would really help me with the youtube algorithm but first what will we cover in this presentation we’ll start by talking about how the rasa don’t works well then discuss indications or reasons we would prescribe this medication to a
Patient followed by contradictions or reasons we would not be able to prescribe this medication well then discuss examples of dosing and then stick around to the end where we’ll talk about side effects with percentages how does the rasa don’t work well first of all it’s an atypical antipsychotic agent it is an antagonist at dopamine type 2 or d2 receptors as well
As 5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-ht 2a receptors it’s also a partial agonist at 5-ht 1a receptors in terms of indications or reasons we would prescribe this medication to a patient we often see it used in the depressed phase in bipolar disorder either as a mono therapy or in combination with lithium or valproate this medication can also be used to treat schizophrenia
With respect to contraindications or reasons we would not be able to prescribe larezo known to a patient first one would be if a patient had a hypersensitivity tool or acetone or any other components of the formulation it’s not to be used with a strong sip 3a for inducers an example of this would be carbamazepine and it also shouldn’t be used with strong sip 3 or 4
Inhibitors so an example of this would be ketoconazole now what about dosing with our acetone so in bipolar disorder as an adjunct therapy the initial dose would be 20 milligrams orally once daily with food the maximum dose would be 120 milligrams once daily in schizophrenia the initial dose would be a little bit higher here at 40 milligrams orally once daily with
Food and the maximum dose would be higher as well at 160 milligrams once daily now as with all medications there are some side effects or adverse reactions that patients may experience while using their acid own so i’ll go over some of those here now 2 to 7% of page may experience weight gain while dis lipedema may occur in four to fourteen percent of patients
1 to 13 percent may experience increased glucose levels and 3 to 5 percent may experience diarrhea nausea seems to happen 10 to 17 percent of the time and vomiting 2 to 9 percent of the time akathisia may happen in 6 to 22 percent of patients and parkinsonism may happen up to 17 percent of the time 7 to 29 percent of patients may experience somnolence and 4 to 5
Percent may experience anxiety now some more rare but serious side effects would be orthostatic hypotension which would be a sudden drop in blood pressure when going from a seated to a standing position as well as suicidal thoughts it’s all we’re gonna talk about today with laura sedona orla tudi as i wasnt very thankful you took the time to come by and watch all
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Lurasidone (Latuda) – Uses, Dosing, Side Effects By Drug Talk