A19 year old boy suffering from chronic schizophrenia is put on haloperidol in the dose of 20 mg/day. A week after the initiation of medication the patient shows restlessness, fidgety, irritability and cannot sit still at one place. The most appropriate treatment strategy is -
Ans: C Akathasia is the complication. It's the most common extrapyramidal side effect to develop due to use of antipsychotics. it appears within hoursto weeks of starting anti psychotics. Doc is propranolol.
Increase in the dose of haloperidol
Addition of anticholinergic drug
Addtion of beta blocker
Adding another antipsychotic drug
Pharmacotherapy Management of Children and Adolescents