Just came across this on the CNN website
(http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9802/09/antihistamine.reut/)
In particular, note the potential for trouble when using hismanal with
prozac etc.
(sorry about the weird spacing)
Mary Rack
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"The new labeling provides information about a specific warning
against simultaneously using Hismanal with other
types of drugs
such as the hypertension drug Posicor (mibefradil)
and the
antibiotics Biaxin (clarithromycin) and TAO
(troleandomycin)."
Other drugs Hismanal should not be taken with
include HIV
protease inhibitor drugs such as Crixivan
(indinavir), Norvir
(ritonavir) and Viracept (nelfinavir),
anti-depressants in the SSRI
class such as Prozac, known generically as
fluoxetine, Zoloft or
sertraline, and Paxil or paroxetine.
It should also not be combined with Zyflo or
zileuton, an asthma
drug, or with grapefruit juice, which is known to
make some drugs
act more effectively in the body.
