Description and Brand Names

Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®

US Brand Name

  1. Compazine
  2. Compro
  3. Mellaril
  4. Permitil
  5. Phenadoz
  6. Prolixin
  7. Serentil
  8. Sparine
  9. Thorazine
  10. Torecan
  11. Trilafon
  12. Phenergan

Canadian Brand Name

  1. Largactil
  2. Moditen Hydrochloride
  3. Pms-Perphenazine
  4. Pms-Prochlorperazine
  5. Pms-Promethazine
  6. Pms-Thioridazine
  7. Stemetil
  8. Trilafon Concentrate

Descriptions


Phenothiazines are used to treat serious mental and emotional disorders, including schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Some are used also to control agitation in certain patients, severe nausea and vomiting, severe hiccups, and moderate to severe pain in some hospitalized patients. Chlorpromazine is used also in the treatment of certain types of porphyria, and with other medicines in the treatment of tetanus. Phenothiazines may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Phenothiazines may cause unwanted, unattractive, and uncontrolled face or body movements that may not go away when you stop taking the medicine. They may also cause other serious unwanted effects. You and your doctor should talk about the good this medicine will do as well as the risks of using it. Also, your doctor should look for early signs of these effects at regular visits. Your doctor may be able to stop or decrease some unwanted effects, if they do occur, by changing your dose or by making other changes in your treatment.

These medicines are available only with your doctor's prescription.

Levoprome(R) (methotrimeprazine) is no longer available in the United States. At the end of May 1998, Immunex Corporation stopped marketing it.

This product is available in the following dosage forms:

  • Suppository
  • Tablet
  • Solution
  • Elixir
  • Syrup

From Mayo Clinic to your inbox

Sign up for free, and stay up to date on research advancements, health tips and current health topics, like COVID-19, plus expertise on managing health. Click here for an email preview.

To provide you with the most relevant and helpful information, and understand which information is beneficial, we may combine your email and website usage information with other information we have about you. If you are a Mayo Clinic patient, this could include protected health information. If we combine this information with your protected health information, we will treat all of that information as protected health information and will only use or disclose that information as set forth in our notice of privacy practices. You may opt-out of email communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.

Portions of this document last updated: May 01, 2023

Copyright: © Merative US L.P. 1973, 2023. All rights reserved. Information is for End User's use only and may not be sold, redistributed or otherwise used for commercial purposes.