Carbamazepine may cause syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone ( SIADH ), since it both increases the release and potentiates the action of ADH ( vasopressin ).

Carbamazepine, as a CYP450 inducer, may increase clearance of many drugs, decreasing their blood levels.

Carbamazepine may increase heart block.

Additionally the blood-concentrations of Phenytoin or Carbamazepine may be increased, leading to a higher incidents of side effects.

Carbamazepine ( CBZ ) is an anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug used primarily in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder, as well as trigeminal neuralgia.

Carbamazepine was approved in the United States for the treatment of adult epilepsy in 1974.

Carbamazepine is effective in treating manic episodes, with some evidence it has greater benefit in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, or those with more psychotic manic symptoms or a more schizoaffective clinical picture.

Carbamazepine is typically used for the treatment of seizure disorders and neuropathic pain.

Carbamazepine is a dibenzazepine.

* Carbamazepine is an approved treatment for manic depression and convulsions, but has side effects useful in treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ), schizophrenia, phantom limb syndrome, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder, neuromyotonia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Carbamazepine ( Tegretol ) is effective but not necessarily safe for diabetic neuropathy.

* Carbamazepine, or Tegretol, has been used as a mood stabilizer and is accepted treatment for bipolar disorder.

Carbamazepine is not available in an intravenous formulation, and does not play a role in status epilepticus.

Carbamazepine has a potential for drug interactions ; caution should be used in combining other medicines with it, including other antiepileptics and mood stabilizers.

Carbamazepine was first marketed as a drug to treat trigeminal neuralgia ( formerly known as tic douloureux ) in 1962.

The initial autopsy report describes the drug as Carbamazepine, and that dosage was found to be at sub-therapeutic level.

Carbamazepine became widely used to treat bipolar disorder in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but was displaced by sodium valproate in the 1990s.

Carbamazepine preparations typically greatly decrease a person's alcohol tolerance.

Carbamazepine increases the risk of developing lupus by 88 % ( odds ratio of 1. 88 ), with the effect possibly restricted to women.

Carbamazepine also increases the metabolism of the hormones in birth control pills and can reduce their effectiveness, potentially leading to unexpected pregnancies.

Carbamazepine can enter the environment through discharge of wastewater, and has also been shown to persist and accumulate in the organic components of soil and sludge.

Carbamazepine exhibits autoinduction: it induces the expression of the hepatic microsomal enzyme system CYP3A4, which metabolizes carbamazepine itself.

Carbamazepine stabilizes the inactivated state of Voltage-gated sodium channels, making fewer of these channels available to subsequently open.

Carbamazepine has also been shown to potentiate GABA receptors made up of alpha1, beta2, gamma2 subunits.

Carbamazepine was discovered by chemist Walter Schindler at J. R. Geigy AG ( now part of Novartis ) in Basel, Switzerland, in 1953.

Carbamazepine would be studied for bipolar disorder throughout the 1970s.

* Carbamazepine overview from PsychEducation. org

* Carbamazepine ( Tegretol ) – CBC should be monitored, as carbamazepine can lower white blood cell count.

Carbamazepine was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as a bipolar disorder treatment in 2005, but had been widely used previously.

While the personality factors that aggravate interfaith conflict may be perennial, nationalism is more variable.

During withdrawal, fluoroquinolone-based antibiotics are best avoided if possible ; they displace benzodiazepines from their binding site and reduce GABA function and, thus, may aggravate withdrawal symptoms.

It may also aggravate other types of generalized seizure disorder, particularly absence seizures.

Common Axis III disorders include brain injuries and other medical / physical disorders which may aggravate existing diseases or present symptoms similar to other disorders.

NSAIDs may aggravate hypertension ( high blood pressure ) and thereby antagonize the effect of antihypertensives, such as ACE Inhibitors.

Some caution should be exercised when consuming this plant because it, similar to rhubarb, contains oxalic acid, which may aggravate conditions such as rheumatism, arthritis, gout, kidney stones or hyperacidity ..

Anxiety, as well as mood and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, may be treated using SSRIs, although these can also aggravate hyperactivity and cause disinhibited behavior.

Additionally, patients may be advised to avoid alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco, all of which can aggravate symptoms of Ménière's.

For persons with asthma or multiple chemical sensitivity the smoke from fireworks may aggravate existing health problems.

Antibiotics used to treat meningitis may aggravate the inflammatory response of the central nervous system by releasing neurotoxins from the cell walls of bacteria-like lipopolysaccharide ( LPS ).

The main manifestations of peritonitis are acute abdominal pain, abdominal tenderness, and abdominal guarding, which are exacerbated by moving the peritoneum, e. g., coughing ( forced cough may be used as a test ), flexing one's hips, or eliciting the Blumberg sign ( a. k. a. rebound tenderness, meaning that pressing a hand on the abdomen elicits less pain than releasing the hand abruptly, which will aggravate the pain, as the peritoneum snaps back into place ).

After surgery or pneumatic dilatation, proton pump inhibitors can help prevent reflux damage by inhibiting gastric acid secretion ; and foods that can aggravate reflux, including ketchup, citrus, chocolate, alcohol, and caffeine, may need to be avoided.

In some people, insoluble fiber supplementation may aggravate symptoms.

Sinemet may help with movement problems, but in some cases may, like dopamine agonists, tend to aggravate psychosis in people with DLB.

King writes that the FBI may have tried to aggravate the strife, using measures such as anonymous mailings, to keep the groups at each other's throats.

In criminal law, it may criminalize actions that were legal when committed ; it may aggravate a crime by bringing it into a more severe category than it was in when it was committed ; it may change the punishment prescribed for a crime, as by adding new penalties or extending sentences ; or it may alter the rules of evidence in order to make conviction for a crime likelier than it would have been when the deed was committed.

** The CD audio still bears the artifacts of compression, so converting it back into a lossy format such as MP3 may aggravate the sound artifacts of encoding ( see transcoding ).

While artifactual characteristics of a camera lens may aggravate the distortion, that distortion is only ancillary to the fundamental cause of distortion described here.

Many cardiologists believe nicotine products ( oral ) contribute to the potentiation of sympathetic nerve tone, and may aggravate hypertension due to the effects of nicotine on cholinergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission.

Since sitting on the affected area may aggravate the condition, a cushion with a cutout at the back under the coccyx is recommended ( the donut cushion traditionally recommended by doctors is generally useless for this condition ).