OTC Allergy Medicine

[T_Mom]

Hi -- Oldest d (14) has school weekend field trip --

 

I know we have kicked this around before, but can someone please remind me which OTC meds for pollen allergies have worked???

(She reports that Zyrtec activates her symptoms.) Thank you--

[thereishope]

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Edited September 30, 2019 by Vickie

[T_Mom]

Thanks Vickie, that sounds interesting and I will look into it--regretfully I need something today to send with her--but thanks!

[Fixit]

Hi -- Oldest d (14) has school weekend field trip --

 

I know we have kicked this around before, but can someone please remind me which OTC meds for pollen allergies have worked???

(She reports that Zyrtec activates her symptoms.) Thank you--

 

some say quercitin or allermax and that has quercitin in it with NAC and other stuff

i'm not sure if my ds does well on that..my ds is a ticcer.

we have done allergy shots and pollen has gone down below 100...soooo.

based on a friends report ..she swears by garlic a couple times a day

and i think C is suppossed to help too

so as of now(again we just reached maintanence) and just dropped singulair, and a short lived attempt on zyrtec

just doing c and garlic

Edited April 18, 2012 by Fixit

[ibcdbwc]

This is completely off the wall but we actually give zantac in a pinch. It's for the stomach of course but has anti allergen properties along the H2 receptor. My ds flares with regular H1 blocking meds like benadryl, claritin, allegra.

[DeterminedMomVA]

Claritin and Zyrtec both activate my DS, and Claritin stopped working for him anyway. I have given him Benadryl if he really needed something (that was this fall pre-diagnosis, but he had PANDAS at that point, and it did seem to help him some without increasing PANDAS symptoms), but I think you have to take it every 6 hours or so, and it can cause drowsiness.

[ibcdbwc]

This is completely off the wall but we actually give zantac in a pinch. It's for the stomach of course but has anti allergen properties along the H2 receptor. My ds flares with regular H1 blocking meds like benadryl, claritin, allegra.

[MomWithOCDSon]

Pepcid, an H2 blocker, has done great things for our DS15; just one at night, before dinner, and his allergic symptoms -- including eczema outbreaks -- have subsided. Also use Flonase.

[nicklemama]

I'm probably too late on this but DS takes Claritin w/out a problem.

[T_Mom]

Thank you everyone for the help on this -- always good to hear the suggestions.

Maybe we will try Benadryl or Claritin, sure wish there was a "map" for all of this!

[thereishope]

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Edited September 30, 2019 by Vickie