Rising Trend of Use of Antidepressants Induced Non- Puerperal Lactation: A Case Report

Non puerperal lactation or galactorrhea is a well known side effect of antipsychotic drugs but has been infrequently described with the use of antidepressants. In past few decades, there have been emerging trend of isolated case reports of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors induced non puerpera...

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Published in:	Journal of clinical and diagnostic research Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. VD01 - VD02
Main Authors:	Kukreti, Prerna, Ali, Wazid, Jiloha, R C
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	India JCDR Research and Publications (P) Limited 01-06-2016 JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
Subjects:	galactorrhea nortriptyline Psychiatry Section tricyclic antidepressants Nortriptyline Galactorrhea Tricyclic antidepressants
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Summary:	Non puerperal lactation or galactorrhea is a well known side effect of antipsychotic drugs but has been infrequently described with the use of antidepressants. In past few decades, there have been emerging trend of isolated case reports of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors induced non puerperal lactation. We report a case of non puerperal lactation following usage of second generation tricyclic antidepressant, nortriptyline and resolution on withdrawing the drug. Literature review has been done for antidepressant induced galactorrhea to understand the current trends, putative mechanism as different from one implicated for antipsychotics and its clinical utility.
ISSN:	2249-782X 0973-709X
DOI:	10.7860/JCDR/2016/19266.7928