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Got allergies? What is the best over the counter medicine???

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My girl is taking Zyrtec and its not working as well as it use to. I got her some cheap cold and allergy med mostly to help her sleep. But what is the best over the counter that will not make her sleepy but help her with her running nose and red eyes?

Thanks
 
alevert!
it works great at drying up the nose and doesnt make me drowsy! try it!
 
With the exception of about one week a year (when the pollen is coming down super thick until the rain knocks it out of the trees) Claritin usually does a great job for me. It has be in your system awhile to be really effective though.

For REALLY bad days I just take Benadryl and sleepwalk through my day.
 
I used to have allergies. I took Allegra D when needed, because if you took it all the time it would actually make things worse. And I got allergy shots, and nasal spray and all that crap.

I got sick of being a 20 year old guy in good health having to take drugs all the time. I also had ADD at the time. So I went online and looked around for natural solutions.

I starting taking two supplements from a New Zealand company called XTEND-LIFE. Their Men's Plus general supplement and Hoki Fish oil that's loaded with unpolluted omega 3 fatty acids, including DHA. I'm not sure which one is responsible for killing my allergies. They sound like some TV infromercial, but they're the real stuff.

Now spring just erupted about two weeks ago. I walked to my apartment's gym with absolutely clear nasal passage. Cars were covered in pollen. I used to have trouble breathing through my nose during the winter.
 
this is what you need to do, have zyrtec, allegra, and claritan.

alternate them , and they work better that way for some reason.
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
My girl is taking Zyrtec and its not working as well as it use to. I got her some cheap cold and allergy med mostly to help her sleep. But what is the best over the counter that will not make her sleepy but help her with her running nose and red eyes?

Thanks
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Only Alavert/Caritan (same drug - loratidine 10mg) is OTC in the U.S. thanks to the drugco's fleecing the american public for R&D costs. Zyrtec, Clarinex, and Allegra (shucks, just forgot the other big one) are OTC everywhere else in the world.

My answer for allergy sufferers is to see a doctor and get on Singulair. It works differently than any of the antihistamines listed above. It's wonderful when used with Guafenesin (sp?) DM to ease congestion.

It is nonformulary in the U.S., so it's kind of expensive, depending on your insurance carrier.
 
this is what you need to do, have zyrtec, allegra, and claritan.
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That's true. When I took allegra D every day, I'd build up an immunity and I swear it became worse than it was with no medication.

If you go the drug route, do that.

But seriously consider what I said above. I have zero allergies now. Not only that, I feel better, my ADD is gone, and my vision is getting better too.

But I don't want to sound like I'm trying to sell something here. Go out and research Omega3/DHA and it's correlation between brain health, cardio health, allergies, ADD, depression, vision, etc. The average american/UK diet is 1 part Omega 3, 20 parts Omega 6. The human body needs 1:1.
 
Thanks everybody. I will go over it with her, since she is the one that has to take it, and tell her what I found. 🙂
 
Use a Neti Pot daily. I suffered all my life with allergies and while medicine helped, it mostly just made me constipated and then eventually stopped working.

The best thing for allergies is to simply wash out your nasal passages.

<---been off meds for over 3 years and rarely gets sick anymore 🙂
 
I don't mean to be a downer and I'm not a doctor, but this is what I've picked up about allergies:

Extreme allergies are your immune system over-reacting to foreign agents. It sees relatively harmless particles, assumes they're out to get you, and calls out all the troops.
(Correct me if I'm wrong)

Instead of a symptomatic fix, you should look into food and chemical intolerances. My guess is you'll find something.

Again, take this with a grain of salt. I am just some guy on the Internet, after all. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Isla
Use a Neti Pot daily. I suffered all my life with allergies and while medicine helped, it mostly just made me constipated and then eventually stopped working.

The best thing for allergies is to simply wash out your nasal passages.

<---been off meds for over 3 years and rarely gets sick anymore 🙂
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I heard neti pot works real well.

No one answered my question 🙁
 
Washing out? You mean with warm salt water? I hated doing that, and it would only work for like 10 minutes and give me a burning feeling.


Instead of a symptomatic fix, you should look into food and chemical intolerances. My guess is you'll find something.
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That's actually very close IMO. I strongly believe it's nutritional difficiency, or in longer terms, food/particle intolerances due to nutritional difficiencies.

But I doubt anyone's going to take my advice seriously.
 
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Originally posted by: Isla
Use a Neti Pot daily. I suffered all my life with allergies and while medicine helped, it mostly just made me constipated and then eventually stopped working.

The best thing for allergies is to simply wash out your nasal passages.

<---been off meds for over 3 years and rarely gets sick anymore 🙂
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I heard neti pot works real well.

No one answered my question 🙁
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Sorry about that. The day you posted, it was my birthday and I was on a catamaran in St Kitts with my sister. 😀

You have to get the water JUST RIGHT... it must be about body temperature, it must have as much salt as your tears, the salt must be pure, and the water must be purified (my reverse osmosis water is fine). It hurts like hell if you don't have it right. Kind of like nursing a baby... takes practice, but once you get it down it's pretty easy.

If anyone has any questions, just PM me or email mehere. I am not on line so much any more, but would love to help others get some relief.
 
Originally posted by: Legend
Washing out? You mean with warm salt water? I hated doing that, and it would only work for like 10 minutes and give me a burning feeling.


Instead of a symptomatic fix, you should look into food and chemical intolerances. My guess is you'll find something.
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That's actually very close IMO. I strongly believe it's nutritional difficiency, or in longer terms, food/particle intolerances due to nutritional difficiencies.

But I doubt anyone's going to take my advice seriously.
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I agree with you. But then again, I have a 99 1/2 year old grandmother who has avoided chemicals (including vaccinations) and most modern conveniences and she's still going strong... while my poor children have all kinds of health issues related to our chemically treated planet. I'm doing everything I can to help them but it's hard to convince them that mom is right, but eventually it is up to them to make the right choices.

 
Been taking Zyrtec for a few years now. Its the best from what Ive used. The over the counter stuff just didn't work for me, but then Ive been taking allergy meds for about 17 years now. 🙁

Also started to use Nasacort AQ once a day.

I still have problems during certain times of the year. Like now, the pollen drives my eyes crazy when I'm outside.
 
allegra never worked for me.. i use the tylenol allergy stuff.. it works for me.. it's the half green half yellow pill..
 
Originally posted by: habib89
allegra never worked for me.. i use the tylenol allergy stuff.. it works for me.. it's the half green half yellow pill..
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Same here. Allegra never worked for me. Claritin stopped working after a while. Zyrtec still works for me.

I've got some horrible allergies. The test I took showed I was really allergic to tree pollen. Something like 5000. Same with dogs.
 
Extreme allergies are your immune system over-reacting to foreign agents. It sees relatively harmless particles, assumes they're out to get you, and calls out all the troops.
(Correct me if I'm wrong)
Instead of a symptomatic fix, you should look into food and chemical intolerances. My guess is you'll find something.
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Allergies are an overreaction to what should be harmless foreign agents. There are some dubious practitioners who claim that food 'intolerances' are related to allergies, but in this extensively researched area, there is little evidence to actually support this.

The most popular theory of allergies is that they are an over-reaction, because the immune system has had nothing else to fight. The immune reaction to allergies is a very specific method that was developed to fight parasites (watering eyes, runny nose, coughing, sneezing are all ways that the body could rid itself of parasites). However, because of the cleanliness of modern living, the immune system never gets the experience it needs to regulate its activity.

For treatment of mild allergies, I normally use a non-drowsy antihistamine - loratadine (clarityn), cetirizine (zirtek) and fexofenadine (telfast/allegra) are all much the same as each other. Fexofenadine is probably the most powerful, but is prescription only.

If sneezing or runny nose is a serious problem then a nasal spray with a mild steroid, is useful - but you do need to use it for about a week before it really starts to make a difference. These can usually be obtained OTC.

Similarly, antihistamine eye drops are useful if eye symptoms are the troublesome, but again, prescription only, I think.

If symptoms really are troublesome, then a discussion with your doctor to find an appropriate treatment plan and/or assessment at an allergy clinic would be a very good idea.
 
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