T_Mom Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 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-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereishope Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) . Edited September 30, 2019 by Vickie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_Mom Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Thanks Vickie, that sounds interesting and I will look into it--regretfully I need something today to send with her--but thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixit Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibcdbwc Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeterminedMomVA Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibcdbwc Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomWithOCDSon Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicklemama Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 I'm probably too late on this but DS takes Claritin w/out a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_Mom Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereishope Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) . Edited September 30, 2019 by Vickie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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