Overview
- Treats Parkinson's disease [RXLIST-Sinemet];
- Never combine MAOIs with levodopa (hypertensive crisis) [Anderson2005];
- Peripheral L-dopa decarboxylase is saturated by carbidopa at approximately 70 to 100mg a day, which reduces N/V due to peripheral conversion of L-dopa to dopamine [RXLIST-Sinemet];