Use of certain antihistamines confers survival benefit

Anonymous

I've been taking claritin daily since I read something similar about 4 years ago. I thought I'd see if anything was updated, and here is an abstract to an article that seems to support the benefit.

https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/78/13_Supplement/5695

BevJen

Claireinez,

Am I reading that article correctly, or is it saying that there is an advantage to clarinex, which is slightly different from Claritin? From what I can find, clarinex is only available via prescription (just did a quick check, so might be wrong on this).

Anonymous

The way I read it (which could be wrong): "Loratadine use is associated with better survival in the peri-diagnostic analysis (HR=0.78 [95% CI 0.63-0.97], P=0.022)".

Loratadine in common form: it's Claritin.

PinkArmor

From what I can see in research is that desloratadine and ebastine are both prescription and they are the 2 that had the best benefit. They are not the same as Claritin. The article did say that Claritin (loratidine) did have a positive effect as well, just not as great as the other 2. So if you have allergies and need it daily I guess it's good to know that it can help in this area as well.

Beesie

I use Aerius daily - my sinus congestion (and headaches and sore throats and jaw pain, etc.) is brutal without it.

It's not prescription (at least here in Canada), and it's desloratadine. WooHoo!

ksusan

This seems like big news, yet I haven't heard this. I wonder if there's been an empirical study to follow up on this descriptive report?

wallycat

The Swedish study had originally written that Allegra (Fexofenadine) should be studied further as it was a possible. In this write up, it seems they've decided that was a no. DRAT.

Beesie, canada is so much more evolved. Hope this happens for us too!

Anonymous

I've been taking Reactine (cetirizine) for years, but this year it hasn't been working as well. I'm switching to Aerius (desloratadine) now.

Thanks for the info!