The side effects of hydroxyzine include dry mouth, marked discomfort with IM injection, dizziness, asthenia, and slurred speech.Some characteristics of a person with psychosis can range from a person with schizophrenia whose thoughts are disorganized, or the inability to perform the needed task for daily living, to a person with severe depression has strong feelings of hopelessness and is often suicidal. Antipsychotics are thought to act by the agents in them acting on dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain. .
Some drugs block serotonin to act as antipsychotic agents. The difference between drug potency and drug effectiveness is effectiveness refers to the therapeutic response to individual medications while the potency means the drug quantity needed to produce an equivalent effect when compared with a medication of the same drug classification. The side effects of neuroleptics are caused by a prolonged period of usage, causing extrapyramidal effects by blocking dopamine receptors. Other effects include tardive dyskinesia, which includes involuntary movements such as jerking movements of the body, even the jaw, lips and tongue. .
The three major areas of effectiveness for antipsychotics are (1) to relieve the symptoms of psychosis or severe neurosis;(2)to therapeutically relieve nausea and vomiting; and (3) to potentiate analgesics.The side effects of antipsychotics are dystonia, tardive dyskinesia, acute dystonia, Parkinsonism symptoms, akathisia, and other extrapyramidal effects.Extrapyramidal effects are caused by prolonged usage of neuroleptics. Some symptoms included in these effects are tardive dyskinesia, which includes involuntary movements such as jerking movements of the body, even the jaw, lips and tongue. Tardive dyskinesia is characterized by unwanted side effects of treatment with phenothiazine, including slow, rhythmical, involuntary movements that are either generalized or specific to a muscle group.
