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A participant tells the nurse that she is seeing her family physician for treatment of depression and that she has been taking a serotonergic drug. The participant tells the nurse that she wants to start to take St. John’s Wort because she has heard that this herb will help her depression get better faster. The nurse bases his response based on the fact that the use of St. John’s Wort with serotonergic drugs has what effect?
Start by explaining what depression and serotonergic drug is
Then why it is used to treat depression
Then what is St John Wort for
Then what this interaction can lead to (serotonin syndrome)
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A participant tells the nurse that she is seeing her family physician for treatment of depression an