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Loratadine is an antihistamine used to treat allergies and soothe the symptoms of allergic reactions. Unlike most antihistamines, it won’t leave you drowsy and fatigued.
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Loratadine is an antihistamine used to treat allergies, including hay fever and hives.
Hay fever is an allergic reaction to pollen and dust mites, and it’s commonly a seasonal condition, but it can also last all year round.
Hives results in the appearance of raised, red patches on your body. It’s triggered by high levels of histamine being released in your skin. Medicines, stings or insect bites can cause this to happen.
When your body feels like it’s under attack, it releases an endogenous chemical messenger named histamine. This causes swelling and dilation of vessels, resulting in unpleasant symptoms.
When you have allergies, your body treats inoffensive particles as offensive, releasing histamine unnecessarily. For example, with hayfever, your body thinks that pollen and dust mites are a threat. This is why the symptoms of hayfever are often stronger and happen more often during certain times of the year when the pollen concentration in the air is higher.
Antihistamines stop this process from happening, therefore eliminating the unpleasant symptoms of allergies, such as congestion, watery or dry eyes, itchy throat, and sneezing.
Loratadine is only available in 10mg doses. You only need to take one tablet a day so a pack of thirty would last for a whole month, and if you need treatment for longer, you can set up scheduled deliveries so you never run out.
The recommended dosage of Loratadine for children is a 5mg tablet a day. But since it comes in 10 mg tablets, they’ll need to take the tablet broken in half. This may cause them to have an unpleasant taste, so the tablet can be stuck inside a piece of fruit or a teaspoon of peanut butter to remedy that.
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Loratadine treatment is straightforward. All you need to do is take one tablet every day with a glass of water, preferably at the same time, since it takes about 24 hours for the medication to wear off. You can take Loratadine with or without food, as the effect will be the same and the tablet is unlikely to cause stomach upset. If you’re not used to taking tablets every day and need a little reminder, setting an alarm on your phone or purchasing a dosette box might be options to consider.
To take Loratadine or any other medication correctly, you should follow the advice of the clinician who prescribed it to you, and if you have any questions or concerns they’ll be able to fully support you.
Loratadine takes effect relatively quickly, you’ll be able to feel the benefits of taking it within one hour. You’ll feel the effects of Loratadine up to 24 hours after taking it, so ideally you should take your tablet at around the same time every day.
If you forget to take a tablet, you should take it as soon as you remember. But if it’s almost time or time for the next dosage, you should skip the missed one and continue your treatment as usual. You should never take two tablets to make up for a missed dosage, because that won’t make it more effective and can potentially cause some adverse effects.
If you accidentally take more Loratadine than you’re supposed to in a 24 hour period, you might develop some side effects such as cardiac arrhythmias and a prolonged QT-interval, which is the time it takes for the heart to contract and recover. Although these effects are more likely to happen to elderly people, anyone else can experience them. If you take too much Loratadine, you should seek medical attention. This is so you can get supplemental oxygen and cardiac monitoring, just in case your body doesn’t react well to the increased dosage.
To avoid making mistakes, there are a few easy things you can do. The first, and most popular method, is setting an alarm on your phone to ring every day at the same time. Something else you can do is purchase a dosette box, where you can set out your medication for a whole week, or even a whole month. You can also incorporate pill-taking time into your routine by leaving the box next to the kettle if you always have tea or coffee in the morning, or on the bedside table if you want to take it every night before bed.
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Double-blind study of cetirizine and loratadine versus placebo in patients with allergic rhinitis. Journal of Investigational Allergology & Clinical Immunology, pp.20–23.
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