Conditions such as hypothyroidism, Huntington's Disease, Lyme Disease, infectious pathogens, mercury and other heavy metals accumulation, changes in hormones, etc.. are also known to cause neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Below is an article, alerting about asthma drug suspected of causing neuropsychiatric symptoms in children. I suspect this is also happening to adults. Nasacort for sinusitis and rhinitis, can also cause neuropsychiatric symptoms.
If your or a member or family suddenly or over a period of time, display psychiatric symptoms, please, investigate.
Often, there is an underlying cause as mentioned above. Avoid psychiatric drugs, see vids posted below.
Asthma Drug linked to suicide attempts, thoughts of self-harm
OTTAWA — The side-effects of a popular asthma medication that has been sold in Canada for 12 years has been linked to suicide attempts and thoughts of suicide, as well as feelings of depression and hostility.
The July 2009 issue of the Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter from Health Canada cites montelukast sodium — which has been marketed in Canada since 1997 as Singulair — as having several connections to the alarming reactions.
Between its introduction to the Canadian market and Jan. 31, 2009, Singulair has been linked to two suicide attempts in Canada and 11 cases where users had thoughts of suicide or self-harm. In 29 other cases, 14 of which were labelled as "serious adverse reactions," those affected suffered from depression, hostility or other psychosis. No deaths have been linked to the drug's side-effects.
Karen Liberman, executive director of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, said the side-effects are disturbing, given how common asthma is.
"It's kind of like a perfect storm," Liberman said. "Asthma is so prevalent, and depression and bipolar (disorder) and anxiety are more prevalent.
"One of the things we know about these illnesses is they are susceptible to stress on the body, whether it's chronic pain, life stress or relationship stress. If you carry the genetic vulnerability to depression, these are the things that can trigger it. As you can imagine, if you are someone with a chronic disease like asthma, and you take medication that's supposed to help, and it precipitates something like depression, that would be very troubling."
Between September 2007 and July 2008, the list of adverse reactions stemming from the drug was amended in Canada, which warns patients that "if suicidal thoughts and actions occur, montelukast should be discontinued and a physician or pharmacist contacted immediately."
In eight reported cases, thoughts of suicide or self-harm subsided once the dose was reduced or stopped completely, while the same adverse reaction returned in one case when the dose was restarted.
In the 29 less severe cases, the reactions were eliminated by lowering the dose or stopping use of the drug in 19 of those cases. Upon reintroduction, the symptoms returned in four cases.
More than half of the reported cases — 26 of 42 — were in people under the age of 18.
The drug is used to treat asthma in people older than age two, as well as patients age 15 and older who suffer from severe seasonal allergies. Cont...http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Asthma+drug+linked+suicide+attempts+thoughts+self+harm/1768232/story.htmlPopular Asthma Medicine Singulair Associated With Psychiatric Disorders In Children
New Medical Journal Article Follows June 2009 FDA-Required Warning For Singulair About Neuropsychiatric Events
(Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com)
On June 12, 2009 the FDA announced a new warning about an increased risk of neuropsychiatric events for the asthma medicine Singulair (montelukast)-- as well as some other less popular leukotriene inhibitors, Accolate (zafirlukast) as well as Zyflo and Zyflo CR (zileuton).
http://www.drug-injury.com/druginjurycom/drug_safety_alerts/
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