What is the best over the counter medication to take for indoor nasal allergies?

Question

I'm going crazy with this! Especially at night, it's the worst!!!

Answer 1

Claritin is good for 24 hours, but at night it may keep you awake, try benedryl the one that makes you sleepy. I have allergies at night so benedryl works the best for me and let me sleep.

Answer 2

What -ever you do, DONT use a nasal spray such as afran, etc.! A lot of people, including myself, have more problems afterwards. It works initially but then the mucus membranes do a total 360 and you have rebound symptoms. The 'nose' gets used to having to have the spray and becomes more swollen and congested then before. That's why it says on the bottle to not use for more than 3 days or so. Most people do not adhere to that. So the best bet is to not even start using it in the first place. Easier said than done i know. When you are desperate and cant sleep then you will try anything. If you need to use a spray then try the saline spray. Any brand will do. If you have persistent problems i would consider seeing a ENT(ear,nose and throat doc.) If this is occasional then follow the above advice. A pill form of decongestant can also help but be aware of those side affects also.

Answer 3

I have had allergies all my lfe, and I learned early what works for one person may not work for me. Try out a few different brands making sure the ingredients are different. The main ingredient in Benadryl, for example is the antihistamine Diphenhydromine...which is found in many sleep aids like Tylenol PM. Sudafed is the decongestant pseudoephedrine hydrochloride. Note the root word ephedrine! This is why sudafed type products are watched now... and most importantly, may keep you awake at night. You need to determine what type of medication you need... are you runny and sneezy? Use an antihistimine. If you are stuffy, use a decongestant. Antihistimines are known for causing drowsiness, unless you use one that says "No Drowsey Formula".

I use a combination type tablet that contains both an antihistamine and a decongestant together. I personally use Actifed.

Answer 4

Claritin

Answer 5

Tylenol Allergies (yellow box)

Answer 6

claritin-D rocks (the D is for decongestant). also, it's TRULY non-drowsy. yes i know those other meds say they're non-drowsy, but they put me right to sleep.

Answer 7

Alavert works wonderfully.

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Answer 8

claritin works well, benadryl non drowsy is another good choice

Answer 9

Hi There

Here is how to attack your allergies with herbs.

Cause:

When certain foods are eaten, toxins are stirred up in the body which has an excessive retention of waste matter.

Dr. Harold Thomas Hyman, M.D., in his book Handbook of Differential Diagnosis (Philadelphia, London, Montreal: J.B. Lippincott Co.) explains that despite limitations in current understanding of the problem, the state of allergy is described best as "a perversion or perversions of the mechanisms of host-defense." Several pages then continue to explain whether the allergies are histamine versus tuberculin type and the many tests, clinically, to determine the cause. The cause can be pollens, plants, micro-organisms and their products, animal tissues, digestants, cosmetics, drugs, serums, articles of clothing, dyes, industrial products, physical modalities (heat, cold, solar energy, etc.), and psychic tensions.

The first step in cleaning up the cause of allergies is to work on rebuilding the bowel area to a "healthy action." A colon cleanse is needed.


Herbal Aids:

1. General Instructions: Clean the blood stream with a good herbal tea such as the red clover combination tea, which consists of red clover blossoms, chaparral, licorice root, poke root, peach bark, Oregon grape root, stillingia, prickly ash bark, burdock root, and buckthorn bark. A very fine herbal remedy for allergies, hay fever and sinus conditions is an herbal combination as follows: Brigham tea, marshmallow root, juniper berries, golden seal root, chaparral, burdock root, parsley root, cayenne, lobelia. Adult dose: one cup morning and evening. Another aid for sinus-stopped-up head and nose is our horseradish combination.


Preparation: Blend fresh, chopped-up horseradish roots into apple cider vinegar into a pulp (thick) and chew thoroughly before swallowing (one-eighth teaspoonful) three times in a day. Each three days increase this amount from one-eighth teaspoon up to one teaspoon.

2.Other Treatment:

Use the three-day cleanse each thirty days, or at least each three months and follow the mucusless diet.

Be sure to drink at least one gallon of distilled water per day for an adult of average size. We use one ounce of distilled water to each pound of weight per day--20 ounces for a 20-pound child. One who weighs 130 pounds would use 130 ounces per day, or about one gallon.

3. Dr. Christopher's Formula for Allergies, Sinus, Hay Fever: (Sha Tea) This is an aid for clearing up these malfunctions, a "natural and herbal help" working as a decongestant and natural antihistamine to dry up the sinuses and expel from the head and broncho-pulmonary tubes and passages the offending stoppage and mucus. This formula consists of the following herbs: Brigham tea, marshmallow root, juniper berries, golden seal root, chaparral, burdock root, parsley root and lobelia.

To speed up this cleansing procedure, use the following combination in addition to the above: blend fresh, chopped-up horseradish roots mixed with apple cider vinegar into a thick pulp and chew thoroughly before swallowing. Take 1/3 teaspoon three times in a day. Each three days increase this amount from 1/3 teaspoon up to one teaspoon, increasing the amount 1/3 teaspoon each three days.

4. Dr. Christopher's Blood Circulation Combination: (BPE) This formula is given to assist blood purifying teas to work more efficiently and to also aid the clearing up of allergies, etc. This group of herbs feeds cayenne (a stimulant) and ginger (stimulant) into the circulatory system where the cayenne works from the bloodstream to the heart and arteries, out into the veins. The other herbs in the formula assist these two herbs and work together to equalize the blood pressure (whether high or low) and to bring it to a good systolic over the diastolic reading. Blood flow is life itself. The blood circulatory combination consists of ginger, cayenne, golden seal, ginseng, parsley and garlic.

5. Food Allergies: Food allergies are another very common cause of headache. The worst culprit is sugar; I have experienced sugar headaches, which are sort of a withdrawal; you eat the sugar, and then as the body is trying to eliminate the toxic substance, your head pounds. Cheese commonly causes headaches, probably the worst of the dairy products for this, although allergies to any of them may cause the pain. Meats and eggs are also common allergens.

6. Onions: Onions are eaten to help the symptoms of allergies.

Best of health to you

Cheers

Answer 10

sudufed..or however u spell it.