Brand Name: Zyprexa
Generic Name: Olanzapine
Primary Use: Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder
Dosage Forms:
To be used as per doctor’s advice.
Effectiveness:
Generic Name: Olanzapine
Primary Use: Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder
Dosage Forms:
- Oral tablets of 2.5mg, 5mg, 7.5mg, 10mg and 20mg
- Injectable: Intramuscular (IM) 10mg vial
- Constipation
- Tremor
- Weight gain
- Dry mouth
- Increased appetite
- Tiredness
- Dizziness
- Limb pain
- Restlessness
- Abdominal pain
- Personality disorder
- Headache
- Sedation
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Tingling of hands and feet
- Increased sugar
- Tics
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
- Muscular jerks
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Inability to sit still
- Fever
- Drooling
- Difficulty in speaking and swallowing
To be used as per doctor’s advice.
Effectiveness:
- Evidence from researches show that Zyprexa has a significant primary therapeutic effect on negative symptoms of primary diseases.
- A superior betterment has been proven in treatment of depressive symptoms associate with acute schizophrenia.
- Zyprexa has also displayed relatively fewer relapses in long term follow up and has negligible potential for abuse.
