Posted by Squiggles on November 5, 2005, at 13:01:31
In reply to Re: AP+Lithium » med_empowered, posted by ed_uk on November 5, 2005, at 11:55:54
> Hi Med,
>
> I've always felt that perphenazine was fairly similar to haloperidol. What do you think? Mg for mg, haloperidol is more potent than perphenazine. I expect that perphenazine is no less likely to cause EPS than an appropriately smaller dose of haloperidol.
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> As a *very rough* guide........
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> 10mg perphenazine = 2.5mg haloperidol
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> Kind regards
>
> EdI just read an interesting article that points
to phenothiazines as likely to induce neurotoxicity when taken with lithium.
I am not sure if pherphenazine is in that class.Here is the article by Miao:
www.hkjpsych.com/V12n1_lithium_neurotoxicity.pdf
Squiggles
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