I have a son that is diagnosed with one psychotic disorder few months ago. He has manifestations of maniac depressive illness so his doctor needed to change medicines he used before. He said once nausea and vomiting due to stimulation of chemoreceptor trigger zone should be treated. Then he prescribed him chlorpromazine. I want to know more about this drug, so tell me everything you might find as useful for me to know.
In automatic nervous system, side effects due to chlorpromazine could occur as anti-cholinergic effects. Here is included dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, ileus, nasal stuffiness, and photophobia. Syncope and impaired temperature regulation have also occurred. You should be prepared for itching, rash, hypertrophic papillae of the tongue, and angioneurotic edema. I doubt your son is going to experience some of the rare side effects of chlorpromazine such as erythema, allergic purpura, exfoliative dermatitis, and photosensitivity. Contact dermatitis has occurred sometimes in personnel handling solutions or injections of chlorpromazine. Sometimes is even reported nausea, vomiting, increases or decreases in appetite, gastric irritation, constipation, paralytic ileus, and rarely diarrhea. This medicine should be avoided in children or adolescents with signs or symptoms suggestive of Reye's syndrome. Its antiemetic effect may mask the signs and its CNS effect may be confused with the signs of Reye's syndrome.
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