Can I Take More Than One Allergy Medication???

The blunt answer is yes... but only if the medications are from different categories. What are the different categories? They include:

• Anti-histamines (allegra, zyrtec, claritin, xyzal, clarinex, etc)
• Steroid nasal sprays (flonase, nasonex, nasacort, rhinocort, etc)
• Singulair
• Anti-histamine nasal sprays (astelin, astepro, patanase)
• Saline flushes (Neilmed Sinus Rinse Kit)
• Mast cell stabilizer (NasalCrom)

As such, a person can take one medication from each category and achieve better allergy control than taking just one medication alone.

For a more extensive discussion on each of these medication categories as well as explanation on why an allergic patient may sometimes need to take more than one medication, click here.

To read specifically on taking more than one allergy medication, click here.

Allergy Medications Explained

A new webpage has been posted going over the different types of allergy medications in the market today. Given that there is plenty of information on the internet on the science behind how these medications work, the webpage does not go into the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, but rather uses terms hopefully a layperson can understand.

Furthermore, small useful tidbits of info are given including differences between allegra and allegra-D not only in terms of medical benefit but also cost as well as why it's OK to take several different types of allergy medications at the same time.

Click here to check it out!