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"Blend a few drops of peppermint essential Antihistamines: No Antidote for Sinus Trouble Beware over-the-counter sinus remedies because many contain antihistamines. antihistamines thicken mucus, making it harder to expel, and can cause drowsiness. Commonly used antihistamines are diphenhydramine, brompheniramine, chlorpheniramine, and phenyltoloxamine. Studies have failed to find that combination antihistamine-decongestant drugs do any good for sinus infections. oil in a tablespoon of vegetable or nut oil and rub this blend into your temples (don't get it in your eyes)." - Linda B. White, M.D., The Herbal Drugstore (Get the book.)

"Next time a bout of hay fever strikes, increase your fiber intake instead of automatically reaching for the antihistamines. Chinese medicine practitioners note that many hay fever sufferers have a tendency toward constipation or irregular bowel movements. Often when bowel function is addressed, the practitioners say, sinus problems clear up markedly. Try to eat three to four servings of fruit a day and/or take a fiber supplement. The results may be nothing to sneeze at. • Steamy Solution F„r frustrating effects of hay fever, herbalists often suggest taking a steam to ease irritated sinuses." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, a recent hearing sponsored by the Government Operations Subcommittee on Health attacked antihistamines as being useless for cold sufferers. As a cold is caused by a virus, it does not cause a release of histamines—the substances that antihistamines are designed to fight (and do fight in a runny nose caused by allergy). Studies have found that cold sufferers on antihistamines did no better than those given a placebo. And the antihistamines have potentially dangerous side effects." - Robert M. Giller, M.D., Natural Prescriptions: Dr. Giller's Natural Treatments & Vitamin Therapies For Over 100 Common Ailments (Get the book.)

"Antihistamines like Benadryl and Tavist D can help, but they can cause drowsiness (no wonder the labels tell you not to use them while operating cars or machinery!). Nasal decongestants can help, but they're also not without possible side effects (restlessness, irritability, and insomnia are among the most common). And while most of these are probably safe, I can't help remembering that one "safe" nasal decongestant—phenylpropanolamine—was pulled off the market a few years ago after it was found to be linked to an increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke in women aged 18 to 49." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"More truly effective drugs were invented between 1935 and 1955 than in all previous human history Penicillin was followed by other antibiotics, new vaccines, synthetic vitamins, antihistamines, tranquilizers, and steroid drugs like cortisone. Some of these new medicines set new standards because they didn't just soothe symptoms of illness. They actually cured or prevented life-threatening diseases. Children and young adults especially benefited. A child cured of tuberculosis by streptomycin could credit the antibiotic for decades of living." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The arsenal of conventional medical treatments pretty much consists of symptom-treating steroids, antihistamines, and even antibiotics. These treatments will most definitely provide short-term relief, but they in no way address the root cause of the eczema. Moreover, and especially in the case of antibiotics, they will probably do more damage to your health in the long term. If you want to heal eczema naturally, a great place to start is by examining possible food triggers." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"ALTERNATIVES For many years, I took antihistamines for allergies to grass and pollen. I'm not sure if they helped, but they did make me drowsy and dull (and gave me an excuse for the latter). For the past few years, I've taken an extract of nettle leaves. It seems to relieve my allergy symptoms. Fran wonders if the benefit results from a placebo effect. If so, it's fine with me. I'm all for placebo healing." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Waiting to Inhale: Medications Treatment for allergic and nonallergic asthma is similar, with the exceptions that removal of allergens is not part of the therapeutic approach toward nonallergic asthma and that antihistamines do not have therapeutic benefit. In addition, individuals with nonallergic asthma may need to take medications more long term, whereas those with allergic asthma may only need treatment when they are exposed to allergens (such as during springtime, when exposure to pollen is unavoidable)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "With all of the antihistamines, drowsiness is dose dependent. It is best to start with a low dose and work up. One of the best-selling allergy medications on the market is deslorata-dine (Clarinex), a newer-generation antihistamine medication that is marketed as a magic bullet for allergies. What most people don't know is that Clarinex is merely an old drug, loratadine (Claritin), that is being marketed by the drug company as new and improved. However, Clarinex doesn't add anything to Claritin (other than more money for the coffers of its manufacturer, since Clarinex is still on patent)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "These drugs are expensive and have not been shown to be more effective than steroids and antihistamines. Other new drugs are the mast cell stabilizers like nedocromil (Tilade) and omalizumab (Xolair). Xolair is given by injection every two to four weeks. These meds have only recently been approved by the FDA, and so we have to adopt a wait-and-see attitude." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "You can review your medication list for drugs that can exacerbate BPH, including tricyclic antidepressants, anticholinergic agents, diuretics, narcotics, and first-generation antihistamines and decongestants. Medical conditions that can look like BPH include urinary tract infections, heart failure, prostate cancer, and diabetes. The Bottom Line Initially use the wait-and-see approach. Saw palmetto is relatively free of side effects but probably doesn't work. In terms of medical therapy, I recommend starting out with the alpha-blockers." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Most sleep aids are benzodiazepines, some are antihistamines, and a new one (Rozerem) works on melatonin receptors. Consult a physician well acquainted with the use of these medications. For anxiety and depression, there are the common SSRIs (Prozac, Paxil, Celexa, Zoloft), newer SNRIs (Effexor, Cymbalta) and tricyclic antidepressants, and sedatives. For vasomotor symptoms, a blood pressure med, a seizure drug, SSRIs, SNRIs, and ergots can be prescribed." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Medications such as lipid-lowering drugs, oral contraceptives, antidepressants, contrast agents (dyes used in some X rays), and antihistamines can also affect TSH testing. Whenever TSH production is not functioning properly, the TSH level will be normal or may even be low, despite low thyroid hormone production or low thyroid activation inside your cells. If this is happening, the diagnosis of low thyroid will be missed. To complicate matters further, TSH tests can sometimes be misinterpreted. Here are two problems interpreting TSH: 1. The true healthy range for TSH is in dispute." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"That's one reason why a side effect of antihistamines is difficulty in achieving orgasm.) According to the Tropical Plant Database website, a prohistamine like maca might have exactly the opposite effect of an tfTzr/histamine. It might make it easier for men and women who have trouble reaching orgasm to achieve it. Natural Prescription for Impotence (Libido) Horny goat weed, standardized to 10 percent icarlin: 2-4 500 mg capsules Maca: 1,800-2,500 mg L-arginine: 1,000-2,000 mg Zinc: 25 mg Note: All dosages are daily dosages and come in pill or capsule form unless otherwise noted." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Among these are antihistamines, oral decongestants, nasal decongestants, and combination antihistamine/decongestants. For more information on these meds, see the following material on medication for allergies. MEDICATION FOR ALLERGIES Allergy is the least responsive of the 4-A disorders to effective remediation with medication. Allergy is the quintessentially complex internal reaction that simply cannot be contained with the highly targeted actions of pharmaceutical medicines. This is unfortunate, because allergy lies at the heart of each of the other 4-A disorders." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Most children, however, are mildly sedated by antihistamines. Atarax is an antihistamine that is sometimes applied as a sedative to children, and also sometimes as an anti-anxiety agent. I have found it to be generally quite effective for itching, and also for hives, which are more common among adults than children, but do sometimes occur in kids. Benadryl is also a sedating antihistamine, and in many kids it's so sedating that it is appropriate only for an acute allergic reaction, rather than for chronic allergy." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Because they have a different action than antihistamines, many products combine the two medications as antihistamine/ decongestants. Sudafed, until recently, was the most popular and widely available over-the-counter decongestant, but it was abused by people who used it to manufacture the dangerous street drug methamphetamine. Therefore it is now somewhat more difficult to obtain in some states. Singulair, which is effective against allergically triggered asthma, is also quite effective for a variety of allergic responses." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "The drugs I tend to prescribe are antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, anti-inflammatories, and antihistamines. Although many of the same co-morbid conditions that are present in autism can also contribute to ADHD, these disorders tend to be significantly milder, less frequent in occurrence, and fewer in number in ADHD kids. If this were not true, it is possible that more virulent co-morbidity might tip the balance for ADHD kids, and cause them to suffer symptoms more consistent with those of the autism spectrum." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It was a pretty serious allergic reaction, for which I was treated with antihistamines. Later, I was treated with prednisone. When small doses of prednisone given every other day didn't help, my doctor began increasing the dosage until I was taking 70 milligrams every day. After about six weeks, I started declining physically from taking this tremendous dose. I gained about fifty pounds. I had conjunctivitis in both eyes. I had open sores. I was so weak that I was almost bedridden. I found another doctor, who slowly weaned me off of the prednisone. But, my immune system had been damaged." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "This can lead them to rely on treating symptoms with major tranquilizers, antihistamines, or other nonspecific therapies, rather than treating the source of an individual patient's problems." Psychoi m m u nology_ Psychoimmunology, also called psychoneuroimmunology, is a discipline that examines how psychological and social factors affect the functioning of the immune system. It is based on the concept that the mind and the body are intricately linked." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Certain medications, including cimetidine (antiulcer; brand name Tagamet), benzodiazepene-containing drugs (antidepressants and Valium), antihistamines, and oral contraceptives can all hinder phase I detoxification. Other inhibitors include grapefruit, the spice turmeric, capsicum of hot peppers, cloves, toxins from intestinal bacteria—even age can slow down your liver's first detoxification process. Doctors are now diagnosing more and more fatty livers (especially in children), a result of too much sugar and processed foods in the diet." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"They found traces of painkillers, antibiotics, antihistamines, and blood pressure medications, all of them lingering remnants of pills swallowed by the residents of cities upstream. The scientists had found striking evidence of just how extensive Iowans' use of prescription drugs had become. Thirty percent of the water samples were laced with Tagamet, the drug that soothes heartburn and stomach complaints. Twenty percent held traces of codeine, a powerful narcotic. Another 20 percent contained tiny bits of Cardizem, a popular medicine used to control hypertension." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Led by Claritin, sales of antihistamines soared by 612 percent between 1993 and 1998. The cover story in Medical Marketing £r Media, an industry magazine, in May 1999 praised Schering for creating memorable ads that were like the "edutainment" created by Disney. Quickly, another new drug, introduced in 1998, took the game to a whole new level. "Viagra changed pharmaceuticals as a business," J. Patrick Kelly, a top marketing executive at Pfizer, the drug's maker, told a reporter from Advertising Age in 2001." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Anthony Nicholson, the scientist who was helping Schering, why the company had not focused on comparing the effectiveness of Claritin with other antihistamines. "We are not actually in the business of saying one drug is better than the other," Dr. Nicholson told Dr. Straus. "We are in the business of saying whether a drug is acceptable in terms of its performance profile." "But how can you say it is acceptable in terms of its performance profile," Dr. Straus asked, "without comparing it to what else is out there?" "We compare it to placebo," Dr. Nicholson answered. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Blend a few drops of peppermint essential Antihistamines: No Antidote for Sinus Trouble Beware over-the-counter sinus remedies because many contain antihistamines. antihistamines thicken mucus, making it harder to expel, and can cause drowsiness. Commonly used antihistamines are diphenhydramine, brompheniramine, chlorpheniramine, and phenyltoloxamine. Studies have failed to find that combination antihistamine-decongestant drugs do any good for sinus infections. oil in a tablespoon of vegetable or nut oil and rub this blend into your temples (don't get it in your eyes)." - Linda B. White, M.D., The Herbal Drugstore (Get the book.)

"You can have an allergy shot or take antihistamines to alleviate your symptoms, but they may not address the root cause of your problem. The cause is found in your body-field, where information is being blocked or distorted and so is affecting the way your body functions at a cellular level. Everything that happens at a biochemical level in your body?amino acids arranging themselves only into allowable sequences, DNA unzipping itself to be copied, neurotransmitters cascading through your nervous system, electrochemical impulses firing muscle or heart cells?is mediated by information." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"These include antihistamines, nasal sprays, and bronchodila-tors—especially those containing the muscle relaxant atropine. If your nose is chronically dry and heavily crusted, you may have a rare condition called empty nose syndrome (ENS). Empty nose syndrome is found primarily in people who have undergone extensive sinus or other nasal surgery for medical or cosmetic reasons. During surgery too many turbinates (see Snoring, above) are mistakenly removed and the nose is literally left empty. Turbinates can also be damaged during radiation therapy or by physical trauma to the nose." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "For example, hypohidrosis and anhidrosis—which can affect small or large areas of the body—can be a reaction to a number of medications, especially antihistamines or the drugs used to treat excessive sweatangina, psychiatric disorders, and tify us, according to a recent study in muscle cramps can cause these Austria. The researchers also found that nonexistent sweating can be evidence of damage to sweat glands from burns and other injuries, as well as various skin diseases." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Dry eye is a common reaction to certain prescription or over-the-counter medicines such as antihistamines, antidepressants, and antihypertensives. It may also be your body's way of telling you that you're reading too much or putting in too many hours at your computer. The more we concentrate and stare, the less we blink and the less often our eyes are lubricated. While dry eye is usually not a particularly serious sign, it can be a sign of Graves' or other thyroid disease, as can watery eyes. (See Bulging Eyes, above." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Symptoms will improve gradually, and you'll very likely see a decreased need to use antihistamines. Bugs That Make You Well Now for the bugs. Probiotics is the name for a general class of "good" bacteria that are absolutely essential for the proper functioning of the digestive system. If digestion isn't working properly, the body is more prone to allergies and skin disturbances. A 2007 Swedish study published in the American Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported that probiotic-supplemented children of mothers with allergies experienced significant reductions in eczema. " - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

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