06+Essay+Question

===What are the effects (intended and unintended) of the two types of antipsychotic drugs that are used to treat schizophrenia. ===

Name: Angela Tan
Date: April 20, 2015

The two types of antipsychotic drugs that are provided to treat schizophernia patients are chlorpromazine and clozapine.

Chlorpromazine(Thorazine) is a type of antipsychotic drug that helps dampen a person's responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli. The intended effects is for chlorpromazine to provide help and reduce the rate of hallucinations and paranoia for schizophernia patients that experience these positive symptoms. However, this drug might sometimes have some unintended side effect on certain people such as creating drowsiness or sleepiness within a person, slowed reaction time, headache, uncontrollable muscle movements, etc. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Thorazine_advert.jpg

Clozapine is another antipsychotic drug used to treat schizophernia patients who had not responded well to their previous medications. This drug helps to maintain the chemical imbalance in a schizophernic patient and helps treat hallucinations and delusions. However, the immune system is affected as a side effect, which is why patients who are consuming this drug often go for blood tests to check for any infections.

Citations: Allen, Helen. "Chlorpromazine." //Patient.co.uk.// 17 Apr. 2014. Web. 20 Apr. 2015. http://www.patient.co.uk/medicine/chlorpromazine

"Clozaphine." //NHS.uk.// Web. 20 Apr. 2015. http://www.nhs.uk/medicine-guides/pages/MedicineOverview.aspx?condition=Schizophrenia%20and%20Psychosis&medicine=clozapine&preparationClozapine%20100mg%20tablets

COMMENT: Brian Hiew Good job answering this question Angela, but you could have added tiny pieces of information to make your answer better in my opinion. Firstly, thorazine can bring about hematological disorders such as leukopenia and aplastic anemia. Hematological disorders mainly affects the blood of an individual. Secondly, its good to mention the side effects of clozapine such as slurred speech, tightened chest, drowsiness, increased urination, dark urine, fever, and many more. All in all, you did a great job answering this question. Thanks Angela!

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