Explore Role of Antihistamines for the Treatment of Allergic Disorders

Author: Kiran Mahajan, Wagh Bhakti, Shubhrajit Mantry, Shital Bidkar and Ganesh Dama

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Abstract

In terms of prevalence, most of allergic diseases conditions that last the patient's entire lifetime. It's not just that patients' quality of life plummets, but that they miss a lot of work and are less productive as a result, driving up huge expenditures for society. Thus, finding reliable methods to treat allergic illnesses is a major concern for public health. In addition to allergists, otolaryngologists, and dermatologists, all family medicine specialists, internists, and paediatricians should do this. Antihistamines are most commonly used for allergy treatment. Asthma, eczema, and other allergic illnesses can be treated with any number of drugs already on the market, many of which have generic equivalents that receive extensive advertising. Just what is reality, anyway? What do clinical trials and large-scale observational studies tell us? Is there a standard for how well (and how safely) drugs work? Medical experts from a variety of fields came to the conclusion that mishandling patients' allergies might have devastating consequences, and that drugs with seemingly comparable effects don't always have the same. Hence, a team of experts has assembled the most recent. We scoured the most up-to-date recommendations and standards from professional scientific organisations, as well as the whole corpus of scientific literature. This essay reviews that study and stresses the relevance of the patient choosing the appropriate medication for his allergies.

Keywords

Histamine H1-receptor, Ist generation antihistamines, IInd generation antihistamines, Allergy, Urticaria.

Conclusion

Antihistamines relieve histamine-induced itching. They cure urticaria, hypersensitive conjunctivitis, and rhinitis. Newer antihistamines are less sedative. Several safe and effective second-generation H1-antihistamines address allergies. Levocetirizine and fexofenadine are the strongest in vivo of the three drugs in this assessment. Nevertheless, fexofenadine's limited duration of action may require twice-day administration for daily protection. Levocetirizine may produce somnolence in vulnerable people. Desloratadine is weaker but has a lengthy half-life and rarely causes tiredness.

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How to cite this article

Kiran Mahajan, Wagh Bhakti, Shubhrajit Mantry, Shital Bidkar and Ganesh Dama (2023). Explore Role of Antihistamines for the Treatment of Allergic Disorders. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(3): 669-674.