Contents
About This Drug
Side Effects
Important Precautions
Interactions
Recommended Dosage
Open Questions or Controversies
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Important Precautions
- Tell your health-care practitioner if you are sensitive or allergic to dextroamphetamine, amphetamines, or to any other drugs.
- Dextroamphetamine and amphetamine have a high potential for abuse and addiction. Your health-care practitioner should monitor your use carefully.
- Because these drugs can cause dizziness and sleeplessness, you should be certain of your response to them before you drive or operate dangerous equipment.
- Do not use dextroamphetamine or amphetamine if you have hardening of the arteries, heart disease, high blood pressure, glaucoma, or an overactive thyroid gland.
- There are no adequate studies of the effects of long-term treatment of ADHD in children using dextroamphetamine/amphetamine medications.
- Amphetamine-based medications can stunt growth of children. Your health-care practitioner should conduct an extensive evaluation before prescribing these drugs.
- To help prevent their interference with sleep, take these drugs at least 6 to 8 hours before bedtime.
- Dextroamphetamine/amphetamine and dextroamphetamine alone should not be used for longer than a few months for weight control, and their use for ADHD is a topic of controversy (see “Open Questions or Controversies”).
- If you take dextroamphetamine/amphetamine for weight control, it may gradually lose its effectiveness. Do not increase your dose; discontinue taking the drug.
Pregnant Women
Dextroamphetamine/amphetamine and dextroamphetamine can cause birth defects when used during the early stages of pregnancy. Use of amphetamines also increases the risk of low-birth-weight infants, premature delivery, and symptoms of drug withdrawal in newborns. If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, and either of these drugs is crucial for your health, you and your health-care practitioner must weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks to the fetus.
These drugs pass into breast milk. If you are breastfeeding, your health-care practitioner will likely advise you to bottle-feed until your treatment is complete.
Seniors
Side effects are more likely to occur and to be more severe in older adults.
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