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Anticholinergic agents, such as benztropine (cogentin), may be given with a phenothiazine to:

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Phenothiazines are a class of typical antipsychotics. The most primary example of a phenothiazine antipsychotic is Chlorpromazine. The major side effect of these phenothiazines are sudden involuntary almost Parkinsonian-like movements called tardive dyskinesia and anticholinergic drugs such as Benztropine control the incidence of tardive dyskinesia in patients taking phenothiazines.
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