Clarinex (desloratadine)
Clarinex (desloratadine) Tablets 5 mg
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Generic Name: desloratadine
Brand Names: Clarinex, Clarinex Reditabs
Drug Uses
Clarinex is an antihistamine, Clarinex is used to treat the symptoms of allergies, such as sneezing, hives, watery eyes, and runny nose.
Allergies affect an estimated 50 million Americans. Symptoms can occur seasonally because of airborne pollen from grasses, trees, and weeds, or year-round as a result of dust mites, pet dander, cockroaches or mold.
Clarinex works by blocking the action of histamine released by the immune system, thus relieving some of the important allergy symptoms, such as sneezing, hives, watery eyes, and runny nose. When you are exposed to an allergen a specific type of white blood cell called the mast cell releases histamine. Histamine attaches to its site of action called receptors on nearby blood vessels, causing them to dilate or enlarge, leading to redness, swelling, itching, and changes in the secretions.
Clarinex block the histamine receptors, preventing these membrane changes and the resulting symptoms and Clarinex also block histamine from stimulating nerve endings, which can cause itching and other symptoms. Clarinex (desloratadine) is a long-acting tricyclic histamine antagonist with selective H1-receptor histamine antagonist activity. Desloratadine inhibited histamine release from human mast cells in vitro.
Clarinex does not cause drowsiness.
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How Taken
Clarinex (desloratadine) Tablets are light blue, round, film coated tablets containing 5 mg desloratadine, an antihistamine, to be administered orally.
Take Clarinex by mouth with or without food. Take once daily for 10 days to normal healthy volunteers, the mean time to maximum plasma concentrations occurred at approximately 3 hours post dose and mean steady state peak plasma concentrations.
Taken once a day, Clarinex offers 24 hours of relief—so when you take it in the morning you can wake up the next day with your symptoms under control.
Take your medication at the same time each day.
Clarinex Dosage and Administration
The recommended dose of Clarinex Tablets or Clarinex RediTabs Tablets is one 5 mg tablet once daily or the recommended dose of Clarinex Syrup is 2 teaspoonfuls (5 mg in 10 mL) once daily.
The recommended dose of Clarinex Syrup is 1 teaspoonful (2.5 mg in 5 mL) once daily or the recommended dose of Clarinex RediTabs Tablets is one 2.5 mg tablet once daily.
The recommended dose of Clarinex Syrup is 1/2 teaspoonful (1.25 mg in 2.5 mL) once daily.
The recommended dose of Clarinex Syrup is 2 mL (1.0 mg) once daily.
The age-appropriate dose of Clarinex Syrup should be administered with a commercially available measuring dropper or syringe that is calibrated to deliver 2 mL and 2.5 mL (1/2 teaspoon).
In adult patients with liver or renal impairment, a starting dose of one 5 mg tablet every other day is recommended based on pharmacokinetic data. Dosing recommendation for children with liver or renal impairment cannot be made due to lack of data.
Side effects
In clinical studies of patients with allergic rhinitis, the most common side effects with Clarinex are similar to sugar pill, including sore throat, dry mouth and fatigue.
You should not take this medication if you are allergic to desloratadine or to loratadine (Claritin).
Contraindications
Clarinex Tablets 5 mg are contraindicated in patients who are hypersensitive to this medication or to any of its ingredients, or to loratadine.
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