[Magdalen] US Allergy sufferers...help!

[James Handsfield]

When I had a bout of hives bad enough for a dermatology appointment, they prescribed Allegra (wasn’t OTC at the time).

Alleluia!  Christ is risen!

James Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net





> On May 5, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a non-Benadryl answer to daily hives breakouts. I know the
> answer is a visit to an allergist, but for now I'm trying 1 Zyrtec + 1
> Zantac (the latter is an antacid but also a different level of
> antihistamine), with a Benadryl at noon if they're flaring up again. The
> affliction is not horrible; it just looks bad if I let it happen and feels
> a little scratchy. Not worth a vast regimen of allergist tests, so I'm not
> inclined to enter into that. But I guess an allergist visit wouldn't hurt
> and might steer me toward thinking about what might be triggering hives and
> how I might manage them. Raw tomatoes are a definite trigger, and the hives
> are livable enough that if I really want to eat a BLT, I can do so and live
> with the results.