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Treats or prevents hives, allergy symptoms, and hay fever symptoms. This medicine is an antihistamine.
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Clarinex, Clarinex Reditabs |
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Desloratadine
Clarinex, Clarinex Reditabs
Uses
Treats or prevents hives, allergy symptoms, and hay fever symptoms. This medicine is an antihistamine.
Storage
- Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light.
- Keep all medicine away from children and never share your medicine with anyone.
Ask your pharmacist, doctor, or health caregiver about the best way to dispose of any outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
How To Use
- APPEARANCE: Tablet, Dissolving Tablet, Liquid.
Your doctor will tell you how much of this medicine to use and how often.
- Do not use more medicine or use it more often than your doctor tells you to.
You may take this medicine with or without food.
Measure the oral liquid medicine with a marked measuring spoon, oral syringe, or medicine cup.
If you are using the disintegrating tablet, make sure your hands are dry before you handle the tablet.
- Do not open the blister pack that contains the tablet until you are ready to take it.
- Remove the tablet from the blister pack by peeling back the foil, then taking the tablet out.
- Do not push the tablet through the foil.
- Place the tablet in your mouth.
- It should melt quickly.
- After the tablet has melted, swallow or take a drink of water.
Side Effects
- Call your doctor right away if you notice any of these side effects:
Allergic reaction: Itching or hives, swelling in your face or hands, swelling or tingling in your mouth or throat, chest tightness, trouble breathing.
Fast or irregular (uneven) heartbeat.
Pain when urinating, or trouble urinating.
Yellowing of your skin or the whites of your eyes.
Precautions
- You should not use this medicine if you have had an allergic reaction to desloratadine or to loratadine (Claritin®).
Missed Dose
- If you miss a dose or forget to use your medicine, use it as soon as you can.
- If it is almost time for your next dose, wait until then to use the medicine and skip the missed dose.
- Do not use extra medicine to make up for a missed dose.
Drug Interactions
- Make sure your doctor knows if you are pregnant or breast feeding, or if you have liver disease or kidney disease.
- Tell your doctor if you have a history of heart problems, and about any other medical problems you may have.
Some forms of this medicine may contain phenylalanine (aspartame).
- Read the label before using this medicine.
- This is only a concern if you have a disorder called phenylketonuria (a problem with amino acids).
- If you have this condition, talk to your doctor before using this medicine.
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CONDITIONS OF USE: The information in this database is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgement of healthcare professionals. The information is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, drug interactions or adverse effects, nor should it be construed to indicate that use of a particular drug is safe, appropriate or effective for you or anyone else. A healthcare professional should be consulted before taking any drug, changing any diet or commencing or discontinuing any course of treatment.
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