AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question Is it safe to take Novo-hydroxyzin HCI25mg while taking Pms-Citalopram 20 mg? My doctor prescribed the first med for hives due to stress and the citalopram I have been on before for anxiety and depression.Im just starting back on the citalopram after being off it for 4 weeks due to financial difficulty which will not happen again.
Answer Hi Jennifer,
This combination is likely to make you vry sleepy, if taken during day time it might affect your skills like typing, but more seriously it might affect driving. I would not advice it.
Instead cetirizine might be a better option, yet sedation is likely though less than with hydroxyzine.
Ravi Ghooi
