Stelazine
Trifluoperazine (Stelazine) is a phenothiazine used to treat nervous,
mental, and emotional disorders (i.e. control anxiety or agitation in
certain patients, severe nausea and vomiting, and manage certain psychotic
disorders). Trifluoperazine should be used with caution in patients with
glaucoma.
Trifluoperazine may cause an increase in mental and physical activity.
In certain instances, this effect may not be desirable (i.e. angina patients
have complained of increased chest pain while taking this medication.)
Rare cases of blood dyscrasias (agranulocytosis, anemia, leukopenia,
neutropenia, pancytopenia, thrombocytopenia) and jaundice have been reported
in patients receiving high doses of trifluoperazine.
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