Histacet Range
Histacet Tablets
Cetrizine
dihydrochloride
10mg
Histacet Oral Solution
Cetrizine
5mg/5ml
Lotin Tablets
Loratadine
10mg
Lotin Suspension
Loratadine
5mg/5ml
Key Benefits
- Convenience of once a day dose
- Non-sedating
- Virtually free from anti-cholinergic or anti-serotonin side effects
- Effective during early as well as late stages of allergic response
- Range of presentations convenient for both adults and children
- Tablets for adults and children over 6 years of age
- Solution for children between 2 and 6 years of age
- Objective tests of psychomotor function have shown that the incidence of sedation with cetrizine was similar to that
of a placebo. Cetrizine is also significantly less sedating
than first generation antihistamines
- Effectively controls symptoms with minimum impact on your daily life
Indications
- Perennial or seasonal allergic rhinitis
- Chronic idiopathic urticaria
Key Benefits
- Potent, long acting, antihistamine
- Offers additional anti-emetic central sedative and anti-cholinergic properties
Indications
- For symptomatic treatment of allergic conditions of the
upper respiratory tract and skin including allergic rhinitis, urticaria and anaphylactic reactions to drugs and foreign proteins v
- As adjunct in preoperative sedation in surgery and obstetrics
- As an antiemetic
- For short-term treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness) in adults
- As a paediatric sedative
Key Benefits
- Lotin has no clinically significant sedative or anticholinergic properties - an improvement on cetrizine
- Less sedating than cetrizine
- Faster acting than astemizole
- In short-term comparative studies loratadine was as effective as cetrizine 10mg daily
- Loratadine and cetrizine do not exhibit the adverse cardiac actions ascribed for astemizole and terfenadine (torsades
de pointes).
- Non-sedating
- Once daily dosing convenience
- Rapid onset of action so you feel better sooner.
Symptomatic relief observed after 30 minutes at therapeutic doses
Indications
For symptomatic relief of
- Seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis
- Idiopathic chronic urticaria
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