Fluvoxamine

Aden is a boy who is 14 years old. His parents recently discovered that he has been washing his hands very frequently and repetitively for long periods of time throughout the day. Additionally, his parents have also noticed his strange behavior that he doesn’t like germs, getting dirty and has a fear of contamination. Aden’s parents have also noticed that he doesn’t like using his hands a lot and he stresses and gets very anxious over touching something that is appears dirty to him. His parents…

post-synaptic receptors. The number of patients who experience positive results from medications are in between 40%-60%. If one drug does not work, they could try another since there are so many different kinds available on the market, such as Fluvoxamine, Paroxetine, Seutraline, Clomipramine, Risperidone, Buspirone, Olanzapine, Trazodone, Tryptophan, Pindolol, Niacinamide, Gabapentin, Cloonazepam, and Lorazepan. Now that is not every drug for available for OCD, just a few of them. A lot of the…

headaches and sedation which make adherence difficult for some patients (McGuire et al, 2012). For this reason, SSRIs can be favored over clomipramine and are now the leading pharmacological treatment base for OCD (Pittenger & Bloch, 2014). Fluvoxamine is the most regularly prescribed of the SSRIs when treating OCD, however there is no current research which outlines it as particularly more efficient than other SSRIs (Pittenger & Bloch, 2014). Assuming the absence of reactions, SSRI…

mutism are antidepressant medications which consist of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's) since there is a relation between selective mutism and anxiety disorders. Previous research has shown the effectiveness of fluoxetine, sertraline and fluvoxamine in the treatment of selective mutism and anxiety disorders. The following case study describes the case of an 8 year old girl, diagnosed with SAD and selective mutism, who responded positively to paroxetine medication. The patient was…