antihistamine

"My advice to drivers would always be to speak to your pharmacist about the right antihistamine for you."

These can work well for people who can't take antihistamine for any reason.

"If you've never taken a particular antihistamine before make sure you try it for the first time when you are not driving so that you can see how it affects you, even if it's classed as a non-drowsy antihistamine."

There are also drugs that function both as decongestant and antihistamine, such as Allegra-D, Claritin-D and Zyrtec-D.

The cholinergic urticaria and symptomatic dermographism cohorts enrolled 11 and 10 patients, respectively, with uncontrolled urticaria despite treatment with H1 antihistamines at doses of up to four times the labeled antihistamine dosage.

According to the study, antihistamine medication is likely to remain in high demand, owing to innovation in drug development.

An accurately weighed quantity equivalent to 100 mg of each antihistamine was transferred into a 100 mL volumetric flask separately, dissolved in 10 mL absolute methanol and diluted to the volume to obtain primary stock solution of 1 mg mL-1.

Antihistamine drugs block the action of histamine, therefore reducing the allergy symptoms.

A study reported in the March 7 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine showed what happened to people 2 1/2 hours after they took a popular nonprescription antihistamine, diphenhydramine (found in Benadryl and Tylenol Severe Allergy Caplets).

Key Point: Except for anticonvulsants in documented seizure history, all central nervous system depressants should be stopped when a sedating antihistamine is given to a frail older nursing home patient.

Antihistamines. As the name indicates, an antihistamine counters the effects of histamine, which is released by the mast cells in the body's tissues and contributes to allergy symptoms.

He just needed an antihistamine, but his luggage, with the antihistamines, had been lost.