Ads from Google:


Google ad
End of ad
Google Adsense ad
End of ads.

Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors - Precautions

Abstract: What must I know and think about when I take/prescribe MAOIs?

Web4Health logo
psychologist Independent medical expert answers on psychiatry and psychology

Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors - Precautions

Intelligent natural language question-answering in the area of psychology and psychiatry. Ask a simple question  Local help Info


Go the top of the page Top Forum iconDiscuss this Forum iconGet expert advice Printer Print
Question(s): 
Written by: Petros Skapinakis, MD, MPH, PhD, lecturer of Psychiatry in the University of Ioannina Medical School, Greece. Eva Gerasi, postgraduate student in the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece.
First version: 22 Jul 2008.
Latest revision: 22 Jul 2008.

What must I know and think about when I take/prescribe MAOIs?

Answer:

MAOIs should not be taken with alcohol, or cough, cold, flu or hay fever medicine. They can interact with other medicines, such as tricyclic antidepressants.

Care must be taken when taking more than one medicine. Foods containing tyramine should be avoided when taking MAOIs. Some of these include: broad bean pods, cheese, chianti wine, game, home brewed beer, pate, pickled herring, and yeast extracts.
MAOIs can cause death if they are combined with certain foods, taken with certain medications, or taken as an overdose.

Patients stopping MAOIs, should not start taking another antidepressant for 2 weeks. If they are starting MAOIs, they must not start until at least five weeks after stopping fluoxetine; two weeks after stopping other MAOIs, paroxetine or sertraline; and 1 week after stopping all other tricyclics, SSRIs or related antidepressants.
People taking MAOIs should carry a warning card with them.

Intelligent natural language question-answering in the area of psychology and psychiatry. Ask a simple question:
Local help Info
Google ad
End of ad
Disclaimer: The documents contained in this web site are presented for information purposes only. The material is in no way intended to replace professional medical care or attention by a qualified psychiatrist or psychotherapist. It can not and should not be used as a basis for diagnosis or choice of treatment. If you find anything wrong, please notify us at .
Go to top of page To top of page
Web4Health in other languages: Finnish German Greek Italian Polish Russian Swedish
Copyright 2003-2017 Web4Health.
Web4Health was selected as finalist for the 2008 Stockholm Challenge Award
Translate Web4Health
We seek voluntary translators who are interested in translating Web4Health to new languages. We can provide the servers, and pay you 50 % of the income from ads on pages, which you have translated. We are especially interested in translators from German To English, From German, Swedish or English to French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Polish, Farsi, Russian.
web4health.info/en/tr/

Advertise here
Reach 300 000 visitors reading one million pages for a cost of 600 US $/month.
/en/ad/