Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a high prevalence disease, affecting 10%-20% of the general population. AR is sustained by an IgE-mediated reaction, and by a complex inflammatory network of cells, mediators, and cytokines, becoming chronic when exposure to allergen persists. A Th2-biased immune response is the basis for the allergic inflammation. Histamine plays a relevant role in symptom occurrence....

CLARITIN Tablets contain 10 mg micronized loratadine, an antihistamine, to be administered orally. It also contains the following inactive ingredients: corn starch, lactose, and magnesium stearate. CLARITIN Syrup contains 1 mg/mL micronized loratadine, an antihistamine, to be administered orally. It also contains the following inactive ingredients: citric acid, edetate disodium, artificial flav...

We describe a typical case of apical ballooning syndrome in an octogenarian female patient with left ventricular wall motion abnormality on electrocardiography, whose ventricular function returned to normal. The patient has allergic rhinitis and had used nasal decongestant excessively a few hours prior to the episode of pain.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether seizure susceptibility due to antihistamines is provoked in patients with febrile seizures. METHODS The current descriptive study was carried out from April 2009 to February 2011 in 250 infants and children who visited the Madinah Maternity and Children's Hospital as a result of febrile convulsions. They were divided into two group...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Demonstrate that the Nasal Obstruction Balance Index (NOBI) model fulfils unmet need of improving unilateral correlation between subjective and objective nasal obstruction outcome measures identifying more obstructed side. Improve airway measurements (nasal inspiratory peak flow [NIPF] acoustic rhinometry [AR]) Visual Analogue Scale for (VAS-NO) scores. assessment asymmetr...

patients with allergic rhinitis (ar) show increased production of the th2-related cytokines. almost always, intranasal corticosteroid (inc) and antihistamine are used as routine therapy of ar. this study was performed to determine the in vitro secretion of cytokines profiles of pbmcs in patients with ar sensitive to chenopodium album (ch.a) pollens before and after treatment with inc (fluticaso...