Antihistamines whilst pg

[K8eee]

I know most are out the equation, but is there anything I can use to stop the pollen playing havoc with me :( spent ages cutting the grass today, and my god I'm suffering. Have even had a shower to get rid of the pollen out of my hair but I can't stop sneezing and my eyes and nose are streaming

In the same vein Battery, perhaps you could post a link to a similarly watertight study proving your assertion that antihistamines are "really not safe".

The default position is that drugs are unsafe and it is the job of the manufacturer to prove otherwise. Are you really proposing that we should turn the whole system on its head and assume that all drugs are safe unless and until they are proved otherwise?

I suggest you have a read up on the principles of scientific method.

Look, it is your pregnancy(ies) and your choice(s).

Examining the risks and deciding that, for you, they are worth taking is one thing, and indeed none of my business.

This is a very different thing from trying to pretend that there is no risk, i.e. that these drugs are perfectly safe to take in pregnancy.

People also like to forget that there are likely to be a whole range of harms that we are simply not aware of yet. Even if a given medication has not demonstrably caused one of a known range of possible harms, it might well have caused harm that we are either unaware of, or unable to test for.

k8eee the pharmacist gave me optrex eye drops as they were the only safe ones and prevalin nose spray. She said none of the tablets are safe

I hope you find something to relieve your symptoms!

Ignore the scaremongering. In the absence of evidence of harm, I'm happy to assume something is safe. Otherwise if pregnant you wouldn't be able to eat or do anything (show me a study that says apples are safe or bread or oxygen etc etc).

I'm in the USA (home of the paranoid) and my OB told me that loratadine is fine to take during pregnancy.

I have eczema, asthma and hayfever and take antihistamines every day, my consultant said Puriton, loratidine etc were fine in pregnancy. That was the allergy consultant and also the obstetric one I saw. Midwife and gp knew I was taking them as well. Even with antihistamines I still suffer, no way could I not take them.

I took them whilst preg with all 5madthings and whilst bfeeding. The nhs page tells you which ones are Ok.

Sometimes vaseline in your nose can hel and some of the nasal sprays and eye drops are Ok. You need to check with midwife or gp but there are some that are Ok.

That was my point Battery. I suggest you read up on irony.

You can no more say antihistamines are unsafe (which is what you did) than you can say they're safe. We just don't know, but we can get a pretty good idea by observing the lack of harm done to babies by the thousands of women who take antihistamines in pregnancy. So you are doing nothing but scaremongering by stating unequivocally that they're not safe.

I went to the pharmacy in tesco today, pharmacist was insistent that I couldn't take Loratadine or piriton.... not happy! spoke to my mw too and she also said that I can't take anything pharmacist suggested a trip to my gp, so I'll be giving them a call on Monday even if they can sort me a prescription over the phone and I can get even a Nasal spray. I've got to say though, today hasn't been half as bad thankfully!!!!

tbh I sent dh to buy stuff for me (after dr advice)

My gp prescribed me cetirizine and a steroid nasal spray but advised I only take them if I really need them. I can't imagine my go would prescribe me anything that wasn't safe in pregnancy especially as I already classed as high risk...I haven't taken them yet as I haven't needed them, I'm lucky in that my allergies seem to disappear when I'm pregnant!

You have my sympathies op, I have suffered from severe hay fever all my life and it is awful. Though cutting the grass was a pretty silly thing to do!

dh works a lot so I thought I'd save him a job shan't be doing that for a while if at all for the rest of this pregnancy. we've got a weeping willow Tree that belongs to next door in the corner of the garden, I've heard they're a bugger for giving off the pollen too

You don't need a pharmacist as you can pick them off the shelf in the supermarket.

You can no more say antihistamines are unsafe (which is what you did) than you can say they're safe.

I'm out - there really is no point in debating with such ignorance.