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  2. Which Allergy Medicine Is Actually Most Effective? - AOL

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    Drug interactions aren’t common with Zyrtec, according to the FDA, Dr. Brooks says you’ll want to be careful about using other medications that can cause drowsiness at the same time. Claritin

  3. Antihistamine - Wikipedia

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    [22] [27] Subsequently, other non-sedating antihistamines like loratadine (Claritin), cetirizine (Zyrtec), and fexofenadine (Allegra) were developed and introduced. [22] The introduction of the first-generation antihistamines marked the beginning of medical treatment of nasal allergies. [28]

  4. Loratadine - Wikipedia

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    Loratadine, sold under the brand name Claritin among others, is a medication used to treat allergies. [5] This includes allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and hives . [ 5 ] It is also available in drug combinations such as loratadine/pseudoephedrine , in which it is combined with pseudoephedrine , a nasal decongestant . [ 5 ]

  5. H1 antagonist - Wikipedia

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    H 1 antagonists, also called H 1 blockers, are a class of medications that block the action of histamine at the H 1 receptor, helping to relieve allergic reactions.Agents where the main therapeutic effect is mediated by negative modulation of histamine receptors are termed antihistamines; other agents may have antihistaminergic action but are not true antihistamines.

  6. Fexofenadine - Wikipedia

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    Fexofenadine, sold under the brand name Allegra among others, [10] is an antihistamine pharmaceutical drug used in the treatment of allergy symptoms, such as hay fever and urticaria. [ 11 ] Therapeutically, fexofenadine is a selective peripheral H 1 blocker .

  7. Pathophysiology of hypertension - Wikipedia

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    A diagram explaining factors affecting arterial pressure. Pathophysiology is a study which explains the function of the body as it relates to diseases and conditions. The pathophysiology of hypertension is an area which attempts to explain mechanistically the causes of hypertension, which is a chronic disease characterized by elevation of blood pressure.

  8. Hypertension - Wikipedia

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    The effect of treatment of blood pressure between 130/80 mmHg and 160/100 mmHg is less clear, with some reviews finding benefit [6] [16] [17] and others finding unclear benefit. [18] [19] [20] High blood pressure affects 33% of the population globally. [9] About half of all people with high blood pressure do not know that they have it. [9]

  9. Cetirizine - Wikipedia

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    Cetirizine crosses the blood–brain barrier only slightly, and for this reason, produces minimal sedation compared to many other antihistamines. [29] A positron emission tomography (PET) study found that brain occupancy of the H 1 receptor was 12.6% for 10 mg cetirizine, 25.2% for 20 mg cetirizine, and 67.6% for 30 mg hydroxyzine . [ 30 ] (