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Desloratadine sold under the brand name Clarinex among others, is a tricyclic H 1 inverse agonist that is used to treat allergies.It is an active metabolite of loratadine. [6]It was patented in 1984 and came into medical use in 2001. [7]
Loratadine, sold under the brand name Claritin among others, is a medication used to treat allergies. [5] This includes allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and hives. [5] It is also available in drug combinations such as loratadine/pseudoephedrine, in which it is combined with pseudoephedrine, a nasal decongestant. [5]
The term dosage form may also sometimes refer only to the pharmaceutical formulation of a drug product's constituent substances, without considering its final configuration as a consumable product (e.g., capsule, patch, etc.). Due to the somewhat ambiguous nature and overlap of these terms within the pharmaceutical industry, caution is ...
Aerius may refer to: Aerius of Sebaste, a presbyter of Sebaste in Pontus in the 4th century; Desloratadine, a drug used to treat allergies; Aerius (band), an American ...
Aspergillus aerius is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus.It is from the Aspergillus section. [1] The species was first described in 2017. [1] It has been isolated from an air treatment system in a production plant in the Netherlands. [1]
In pharmacokinetics, a loading dose is an initial higher dose of a drug that may be given at the beginning of a course of treatment before dropping down to a lower maintenance dose. [ 1 ] A loading dose is most useful for drugs that are eliminated from the body relatively slowly, i.e. have a long systemic half-life .
Clark's rule is a medical term referring to a mathematical formula used to calculate the proper dosage of medicine for children aged 2–17 based on the weight of the patient and the appropriate adult dose. [1] The formula was named after Cecil Belfield Clarke (1894–1970), a Barbadian physician who practiced throughout the UK, the West Indies ...
Levocetirizine is an antihistamine. It acts as an inverse agonist that decreases activity at histamine H1 receptors. This in turn prevents the release of other allergy chemicals and increases the blood supply to the area, providing relief from the typical symptoms of hay fever.