Can zyrtec or claritin help with post nasal drip?

25 Oct 2010

I take Zytec and it has helped me alot. I too don't like Singulair it made me very hyperactive and high. I hope this helps you and if you do take the Singulair please be careful driving and doing some strenuos activities, good luck, marjorie zych

10 Mar 2011

10 Mar 2011

Hey Ninacreek & the other Mary(haha) I've been on almost every allergy medicine known to man & the best thing I have found is Actifed to dry you up. Back years ago when it was a prescription, they used it for colds to dry people up. I don't think doctors ever think about it anymore. I get mine at the dollar store, 24 for $1! Ask your doctor if you have heart conditions, HBP, or if you are taking seizure meds & so on. As with any drug, READ the warnings on the box of course. Good luck with it. I know now I get too dry using it sometimes. Let me know if you try it & if it works for you too. Check with Kermit88 if you have any worries. He's up on all of this stuff. Good luck... (oh, & mines called Allerfed because it's generic)

14 Apr 2011

Claritin and Zyrtec are both antihistamines used to treat allergy symptoms. I have been taking Claritan for some time and it works well on reliving my allergy symptoms and has practically no side effects. Tried Zyrtec once it made me drowsy. Both Zyrtec and Claritin are available over the counter and are available in cheaper generic form. Recently I developed allergic asthma and was prescribed Singulair to treat both the allergy and asthma symptoms. Singulair has more possible severe side effects. Check with your doctor.

22 Jun 2011

I tried most of the antihistamines, Claritin, Allegra, Singular, Benedryl, Actifed, and finally settled on Clarinex 5mg. with works for me. I have a double deviated septum, PND, etc. Allergies and worst of all, had thyroid and parathyroid cancer and had all the glands in my neck removed had radiation therapy twice, and it destroyed my saliva glands. Now Medical Solutions doesn't want to approve my medications because they fall in the wrong tier. I take as I said Clarinex 5mg. plus now I have to take EVOXAC which works for what they call dry mouth (Sjogren's Syndrone). How would you like to deal with the Drug companies when you have something that works and they don't want to supply it. They want to know if you've tried all the other old meds first, then the generics, in other words, jump through their hoops come off your meds that work, suffer for a while try it their way, the old drugs, cheap drugs first, then maybe they may have no choice but to approve the one's the doctors prescribed, the new and better one's. I am 70 and tired of this BS.

25 Jul 2011

if your dr perscribed singulair i would take it.. its taken at bedtime, i take it at bedtime and it does help..as for zyrtec or claritin i take claritin every day as i have terrible allergies all yr long, it doesnt work well (claritin) its over the counter meds both of them(zyrtec) i use to take allegra d but that too is now over the counter which i now suffer and it stinks.