Question:
does anyone have depression as a side effect to any of your asthma
medications? My son (hes 12) is going through what i would call
depression. He, all of a sudden, has a lack of intrest in things and he
seems very tired a lot.When i ask him whats wrong he sais hes bored.
This is SO not like him and i wonder if the "bored" feeling he has is
depression.
He takes advair 500/50 , zyrtec at night , claritin-D in the am ,
nasonex spray , and has to take antibiotics continuously. He was on
750mg of cipro 2x a day but we just switched to Levaquin 500mg 1x a day.
Is there any chance any of this is causing depression?
Answer:
Antihistamines can have a depressant effect. (In fact, diphenhydramine
is the active ingredient in both Benadryl and Sominex! They just
repackaged an antihistamine with depressant side-effect as a sleeping
pill!)
Decongestants can have a stimulant effect in adults, which is known to
have the OPPOSITE effect (sedation) in children.
Interestingly, Cipro (an antibiotic) is also known to have a stimulant
side effect in adults (unusual for an antibiotic). Some folks get
insomnia on Cipro.
So yes, your child's central nervous system is getting some hits from
these meds.
I don't know why you switched from Cipro to Levaquin; they're cousins in
the same class.
