Meclizine (Antivert) 메클리진

If you experience any of these more common side effects and they do not get better, or they become severe, tell your doctor or seek emergency medical attention:

• Mild sleepiness
• Mild headache
• Stomach or digestive discomfort
• Dry mouth, dry nose, and dry eyes    33333333333333333333333333333333

Serious Side Effects and Reactions

Tell your doctor right away or get emergency medical help if you experience any of the following symptoms:

• A swollen tongue or a feeling like your throat is closing up
• A severe rash or hives
• Swelling or red eyes
• Trouble breathing
• Signs of abnormal bleeding caused by low blood-clotting cells, such as: easy bruising, red pin-prick spots on the skin, gums bleeding when you brush your teeth
• Irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia)
• Seizures
• Abnormal changes in mental state or behavior, personality changes, hallucinations, or delusions (psychosis)
• Heat stroke

You should get medical attention if any of the following occur as well:

• Excessive sleepiness
• Dizziness
• Poor coordination
• Unusual excitement or nervousness
• Blurred or double vision
• Irregular or racing heartbeat
• Skin that has become sensitive to the sun
• Sweating
• Constipation or problems urinating
• Problems getting an erection
• Itching and swelling in the ear (labyrinthitis)

It is always important to tell your doctor and pharmacist about all of your treatments, including over-the-counter (OTC) medications; vitamins, nutritional shakes, protein powders, and other supplements; herbal treatments or other alternative medicines; and any illegal or recreational drugs.

The following drugs are known to interact with meclizine:

• Pain medications that are related to opium, such as: alfentanil (Alfenta), codeine (Tylenol # 3), cihydrocodeine (Synalog), hydrocodone (Vicodin, Lortab, Percocet), levorphanol (Levo Dromoran), meperidine (Demerol), reminifentanil (Ultiva), and sufentanil (Sufenta)
• Dichloralphenazone
• Sleeping medicines, such as: zaleplon (Sonata), zolipidem (Ambien), eszopiclone, and chloral hydrate
• Muscle relaxants, such as baclofen, cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril), carisoprodol (Soma), and orphenadrine (Zanaflex)

You should talk your doctor if you are taking allergy medications or any drugs for anxiety, mood, or depression, when taking meclizine, so you will know about special drug-interaction symptoms you need to monitor. These include:

• Mood or depression drugs amitriptyline (Elavil), amoxapine (Asendin), aripiprazole (Ability), loxapine (Loxitane), nortiptyline (Pamelor), and oxazepam (Serax).
• Anxiety medicines estazolam (Prosom), diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), lorazepam (Ativan), flurazepam (Dalmane, Dalmadorm), and Midazolam.
• Antihistamine allergy medications: brompheniramine (Bromfed, Brom-fed DM), chlorpheniramine (often in children’s cold and allergy drugs, such as Tylenol Children’s Cough and Cold, and Dimetapp products for Children), and diphenhydramine (Benadryl)

Meclizine and Alcohol

Drinking alcohol while taking meclizine may worsen the side effects of the drug.

Meclizine and Grapefruit Juice

Grapefruit juice is not likely to affect how meclizine works. Both the drug and grapefruit juice are broken down by the liver, but the process for each is different.

Meclizine and Other Interactions

In general, you should be careful taking meclizine if you are already taking medications that cause drowsiness, dry mouth, difficulty using the bathroom, or appear to slow the nervous system, because adding meclizine to your medications can make all of these symptoms worse.