Prozac In Teens. I also started giving him melatoninMy husband does not believe all of the symptoms. So far okay with med.
Only fluoxetine Prozac and escitalopram Lexapro are approved by the US. So far okay with med. Prozac is an antidepressant that became popular in the 1990s and is currently one of the only drugs of its kind to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration for child and teen use.
Any other medications used to treat this illness in teens are therefore considered to be being used off label.
The most common kind of mental disorders are anxiety disorders like generalized anxiety disorder formerly called overanxious disorder of childhood or separation anxiety disorder. Teens and their parents are often educated on anxiety and the best strategies for managing symptoms. There are no controlled trials which show the benefit of using benzodiazepines to treat anxiety in children even though these drugs are sometimes prescribed. About one-fourth of children and teens experience some type of mental disorder in any given year one-third at some time in their lives.