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Chronic effects of COVID-19 can lead to a prolonged inflammatory state, which can increase symptoms resembling an autoimmune disorder. [1] Many patients with COVID-19 experience psychological symptoms that can arise either from the direct actions of the virus, the chronic increase in inflammation or secondary effects, such as post-traumatic ...
Like other SSRIs, sertraline can cause a range of possible side effects that typically occur during the first few weeks of treatment, including: Nausea Fatigue and tiredness
The principal for obstetric management of COVID-19 include rapid detection, isolation, and testing, profound preventive measures, regular monitoring of fetus as well as of uterine contractions, peculiar case-to-case delivery planning based on severity of symptoms, and appropriate post-natal measures for preventing infection.
The risk of liver damage appears to be only for patients already at risk, unlike the antidepressant nefazodone, which, though rare, can spontaneously cause liver failure in healthy patients. [13] Duloxetine is also approved for major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), diabetic neuropathy, chronic musculoskeletal pain ...
The analysis also found that severe discontinuation symptoms, which might cause patients to drop out of a study or resume taking antidepressants, occurred in about 3% — or one in 35 — of those ...
As the new coronavirus spreads, doctors are seeing a pattern emerge in the way people are responding to the disease. People at first will experience mild symptoms like a light cough or headache.
In addition to post-treatment relapse, depressive symptoms can even recur in the course of long-term therapy (tachyphylaxis). Also, currently available antidepressants all elicit undesirable side-effects, and new agents should be divested of the distressing side-effects of both first and second-generation antidepressants.
When discontinuing an antidepressant with a short half-life, switching to a drug with a longer half-life (e.g., fluoxetine or citalopram) and then tapering, and eventually discontinuing, from that drug can decrease the severity of symptoms in some cases. [11] Treatment is dependent on the severity of the discontinuation reaction and whether or ...