• @DreamDrifter
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    389 months ago

    I have allergy meds on me at all times, because sometimes I break out in hives for no reason.

    One day, I’m sneezing like crazy from seasonal allergies, and my coworker asked if I tried any medicine. I suddenly realized allergy medicine works for allergies

    • volvoxvsmarla
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      9 months ago

      Well but in your defence, you probably don’t just carry around something like cetirizine but something more rash/hive specific like Idk desloratadine, which would not be the first choice for seasonal allergies… I’d guess (also not an expert in allergy medicine but you get the gist I think)

      • @DreamDrifter
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        39 months ago

        Nope, it’s cetirizine, the other one you mentioned doesn’t work, and Benadryl makes me sleepy. Looking at the bottle, it doesn’t even list rashes or anything - just seasonal allergies lol

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          39 months ago

          Yeah it’s wild that they don’t really make it obvious that antihistamines works pretty much anywhere or any way for allergies.

          I’m allergic to Benadryl which means if I ever I’m having an allergic reaction to something else I’m allergic to I can’t treat the hives with Benadryl, but Zyrtec, Allegra, Claritin, all are somewhat effective in treating it. But man cetirizine is definitely the best one.

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      9 months ago

      I used to clear my nose (still do), sometimes it would start running after sneezing so I’d take a paper towel and clean up the snot. I then had to sneeze again and that caused more snot to appear.

      It turns out that I can just use my mouth to inhale and not have to breathe in a bunch of tiny towel particles. Who woulda thought… ¯_(ツ)_/¯