Prescription Drug Information: Anti-Depressant Rx Med Prozac May Aid in PMS

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The latest prescription drug information concerns a medicine that would alleviate pre-menstrual syndrome for women having additional benefits on the human body. The researchers in the UK's University of Birmingham have found that a low dose of anti-depressant Prozac may help alleviate PMS symptoms in women.

Prozac has been tested and used as a prescription drug for women who suffer from PMS symptoms, but in doses far too high to achieve desired effects. In treating PMS, the breakthrough study in Birmingham pinpointed the origin of anxiety, headaches, fatigue, bloating, breast and join pain, irritability and mood swings, which affect over 75% of pre-menstrual women. Further studies are required to determine optimal doses to treat PMS in healthy women.

Prescription Drug Information: How Prozac Alleviates the Symptoms

A decline of steroid allopregnanolone in the brain is responsible for the unwanted side-effects experienced by PMS sufferers. Low doses of prescription drug Prozac taken during the last few days of the menstrual cycle can prevent the steroid's decline and suppress PMS symptoms. Doses of 2mg administered to laboratory test rats in clinical trails completely eliminated symptoms.

The prescription drug Prozac, developed as generic fluoxetine, may soon become an inexpensive treatment to help relieve these unwanted symptoms in women. Prozac is currently prescribed to treat premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe and debilitating form of premenstrual syndrome, and has been since 1999.

While findings so far are based on laboratory experiments with rats, the prescription drug information history is strong enough to warrant a full scale clinical trial - the drug is already regarded as safe by the FDA. Check back to PrescriptionDrugs.com continually to find daily updates on the most important news pertaining to prescription drugs and are now proudly among the newest members of Google News.