I've taken antihistamines and didn't know I couldn't I'm worried now

[Clarkel1]

Hi so I'm 9 weeks today and I have quite bad allergies and hardly fever I've been taking antihistamine every other day just the Asda ones I'm sure it's loratadine and I'm now panicking I've done damage as I've seen somewhere we can't take them I'm really worried now 😞

You can take loratadine in pregnancy. www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/pregnancy/can-i-take-hay-fever-medicine-during-pregnancy/

You can take certain hayfever meds. My GP was happy with mevading beconase nasal spray. Give them a call tomorrow just to double check x

You can take antihistamines whilst pregnant and breastfeeding. Loratadine, cetrezine and chlorphenamine are all safe

Thanks so much everyone was beating myself up so badly there 😞😞😞

As others have said most are fine to take but what you might find is some pharmacies will say you need to have a prescription from the gp x

Loads of them are fine
I took several anti histamines for hyperemesis
They are prescribed a lot of them

My GP said they were fine to take. Although the packaging may say otherwise because very few drugs are actually ever tested on pregnant women, so they can't categorically state they are safe, but experience says they are if that makes sense.

Same here I have to take certrazine ones regularly. All docs said it's fine.

Also pregnant and doctor said Loretadine is fine now and again

Thanks everyone

I just got absolutely scolded by my gp for taking antihistamines whilst I'm pregnant. I mentioned the NHS website and he didn't seem to care. Really jumped down my throat and proceeded to prescribe me steroid nasal spray and eye drops. I'm 12 weeks pregnant, I've done the research and there seems to be no real evidence to show it does harm. I'll stop taking if I can manage without, but I'm not going to beat myself up about it.