BipolarCentral
Your One Stop Source For Information On Bipolar Disorder

Loved One With Bipolar Disorder?
Discover How to Cope and Deal with
Your loved One's Bipolar Disorder

Do You Have Bipolar Disorder?
Learn the Secrets to Cope and Deal
With Your Bipolar Disorder

Child With Bipolar Disorder?
Learn How to REALLY Help
And Support Your Child

Dating Someone With Bipolar?
Secrets to a Successful
Relationship Revealed

Marrying Someone With Bipolar?
Learn How to Support Your Spouse
and Avoid Common Mistakes

Need Money Because of Bipolar Disorder?
Learn How to Be Successful Even if
You are Dealing with Bipolar Disorder

Drug Addiction and Bipolar Disorder
Secrets to Beating Drug Addiction
When Dealing with Bipolar Disorder

Need Affordable Health Insurance?
Information You Can't Live Without
If You are Dealing with Bipolar Disorder

In Debt Because of Bipolar Disorder?
Get out of debt fast!

Improve Your Emotional Health
Reduce Your Stress Levels and
Increase Your Brain Power

Eskalith

Manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, Eskalith is a drug used primarily for treating manic episodes, typically associated with mental disorders such as Bipolar. Generically known as Lithium carbonate, Eskalith is also marketed under different brand names such as Eskalith CR and Lithobid. For people suffering from aggressiveness, elation, frenzied physical activity, hostility, poor judgment, insomnia, and unrealistic ideas associated with manic depression, Eskalith has proven to relieve symptoms. The positive aspect of this drug is that it can be administered over long periods, although at lower doses if being treated short-term.

While Eskalith is typically used to help people with Bipolar and depression, some doctors will use it to help with eating disorders, sexual addictions, some movement disorders, and PMS tension. The key to Eskalith working effectively is the dose. If the dosage is not high enough, then the benefits are little to none. On the other hand, if dosage is too high, lithium poisoning could occur. Therefore, doctors and patients will need to work closely to ensure the appropriate dosage is administered. To ensure the correct levels remain in the bloodstream, frequent blood tests are required, generally every two months. If the patient were to experience signs of diarrhea, tremor, vomiting, unsteady gait, and an overall weakness, lithium poisoning could be a problem. In this case, Eskalith should be stopped immediately and the doctor notified.

Other minor side effects that may or may not be experienced include cavities, nausea, thirst, frequent urination, and discomfort. Other precautions would include being careful to avoid stressful activities during hot weather due to dehydration, eating a good diet, and getting plenty of water and salt. Because Eskalith can cause an upset stomach, it is important it always be taken with food or milk. In addition, the patient will need to drink a minimum of 10 glasses of water a day. Although the doctor will determine the correct dosage based on a patient-to-patient basis, typically 900 to 1,200 mgs is prescribed per day.

Back to Drug List

This Week's Bipolar News

Overeating and substance abuse are similar disorders
Los Angeles Times
People with bipolar disorder have higher-than-average rates of obesity and substance abuse. But McIntyre found that the obesity rate in bipolar patients was ...

Club stoush bowls out member
The Advertiser
A MAN suffering from bipolar disorder and depression has been barred from membership at a Sydney bowling club after a clash over club bylaws.

Mom abandons 18-year-old under Nebraska safe-haven law
Richmond Times-Dispatch
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Police say a woman has abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital, saying she can't control the girl, in what may be the latest use of Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. The woman told officials at BryanLGH Medical Center West that her daughter, who was adopted, is bipolar and has a learning disability, Assistant Police Chief Jim Peschong said today.

Click here for all Bipolar News.

Featured Article:

Romancing Your Spouse

"Romancing your spouse?" Ok, I can already hear you yelling at me! I know, it's a strange concept, but hear me out. Some of the longest-running marriages have lasted because of this very concept.

You may be thinking that this has nothing to do with Bipolar Disorder, but it does. Even the best of marriages has some strain on it - the pressures of day-to-day living, at the very least. However, Bipolar Disorder puts additional pressure on your marriage because of the issues you have to face in dealing with the disorder, whether you are the survivor or the supporter.

No matter how long you've been married, the suggestions in this article can put some "spark" into your marriage. And if you've only been married a short time, putting these suggestions into place now can help ensure a long, happy, healthy marriage (of course, you will still have to do some hard work yourself to make that happen as well!).

Click here to read the entire aritcle

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

Copyright 2004-2008, BipolarCentral.com