What Is Serotonin Syndrome?
5. Severe Symptoms
The symptoms mentioned are not usually dangerous, but they should still be enough to encourage the patient to seek medical advice. In some cases of serotonin syndrome, the symptoms will be far more severe and will present a very real threat to the patient’s life. These can also happen just hours after a change in dose, or the patient taking a new drug.
The condition is likely to be more serious if the patient is showing signs of an irregular heartbeat and a high fever. Seizures are another possibility, and the syndrome will cause some people to fall unconscious. The condition can be fatal so it should be taken very seriously indeed.
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