Fluphenazine Background

Fluphenazine is a tricyclic aliphatic phenothiazine which acts by postsynaptic inhibition of dopamine receptors. Fluphenazine has added borderline and axial afraid arrangement effects, bearing both alpha adrenergic dispatch and blocking histamine- and serotonin-mediated effects.

Fluphenazine was accustomed in the United States in 1972 for use in the analysis of astute and abiding psychosis. It was aforetime a frequently assigned antipsychotic medication, but in contempo years has been replaced in ample allotment by the aberant antipsychotics, which accept beneath extrapyramidal ancillary effects.

Fluphenazine is accessible in all-encompassing forms as tablets of 1, 2.5, 5 and 10 mg; as an articulate band-aid of 2.5 mg/5 mL and in parenteral forms for annex or im injection. Fluphenazine is aswell accessible beneath the cast name Prolixin. The archetypal food dosage in adults in 1 to 5 mg already daily. Common side effects cover drowsiness, dizziness, headache, blurred vision, dry mouth, constipation, tremor, restlessness, beef spasms and weight gain.