• volvoxvsmarla
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    9 months ago

    Well but in your defence, you probably don’t just carry around something like cetirizine but something more rash/hive specific like Idk desloratadine, which would not be the first choice for seasonal allergies… I’d guess (also not an expert in allergy medicine but you get the gist I think)

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      39 months ago

      Nope, it’s cetirizine, the other one you mentioned doesn’t work, and Benadryl makes me sleepy. Looking at the bottle, it doesn’t even list rashes or anything - just seasonal allergies lol

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        39 months ago

        Yeah it’s wild that they don’t really make it obvious that antihistamines works pretty much anywhere or any way for allergies.

        I’m allergic to Benadryl which means if I ever I’m having an allergic reaction to something else I’m allergic to I can’t treat the hives with Benadryl, but Zyrtec, Allegra, Claritin, all are somewhat effective in treating it. But man cetirizine is definitely the best one.

      • A few years ago I had an allergic reaction to amoxicillin I was taking from having strep throat which caused me to break out in hives and swell my face up. I was given citirizine and told to stop taking the amoxicillin.