Benadryl (diphenhydramine)

yes, their should be no problem

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You can use Benadryl to help your dog to calm down. The dose is roughly 1 mg per pound of his body weight. It can have side effects and should never be given to dogs with existing health problems except on the advice of a veterinarian, but is generally considered safe.

Any time of day, but note how many hours you must wait before taking it again on the package. In addition, Benadryl can cause drowsiness (it is also sold under the name of Unisom as a sleeping pill, actually), so don't take it with alcohol and don't take it when you will be driving or operating dangerous machinery or equipment--even in the kitchen.

Yes that would be fine. Benadryl is an antihistamine. Keflex is an antibiotic. Usually interactions happen when you take drugs from the same classification. Remember to take all your Keflex even after you start feeling better. You want to kill all the bacteria and not leave any hiding in your body!

Unless you have a contraindication to using an antihistamine, you can use one safely when you have a varicella / chicken pox.

One complication of this infection is pruritis or itching.

Antihistamines can reduce the body's histamine level and quiet the desire to scratch.

When a person does scratch, they increase their chance of infecting themselves - due to breaking the skin.

Therefore, using an agent to reduce itching is a good idea.

It was once considered good to use a topical product like calamine lotion, but lately that is not favorable due to the drying skin and scabs that can be formed using some anti-itch lotions.

There are other methods to reduce the itch caused by varicella, including cool baths that do not dry out the skin.

No, an antihistamine is a drug that causes the histamine reaction in mucus membranes to be suppressed. That reaction when not suppressed, causes inflammation and discharge of mucos, itchy nose and eyes. Chickenpox is generally seen as a disease of the skin and although it can affect the mucous membranes it does not cause a histamine reaction in those cells.

Technically yes, but it is not recommended. The two drugs basically do the same thing, and, as opposed to mixing say naproxen, Acetaminophen, and ibuprofen, there would be no benefit - just more drowsiness and dry-mouth.

not likely, the LD50 is too high. easier to die of tylenol overdose (but I really don't recommend it).

You cannot take any other medication within thirty minutes of taking levothyroxine - also nothing to eat or drink in that time. Levothyroxine must be taken by itself. However, after that time is up you may take a Benadryl if you need to. Just remember it will make you sleepy.

yes

Can you take protonix and benadryl

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I've been looking everywhere for an answer to this question but I can't seem to find a shred of evidence for either side. Common sense tells me it's probably okay but I'd never let my pup be a guinea pig.

My Labrador suddenly came down with a staph allergy so our vet put him on a cephalexin antibiotic regimen. Hopefully this will help him fight it and at least start to clear it up, but the problem is that the poor guy is going mad with the itching. I've been applying neosporin and hydrocortisone cream to all of the hot spots, and it helps (as long as I can keep him from licking it off until it soaks in) some, but there are just so many that it's next to impossible to cover them all.

I had been giving him benedryl along with the neosporin/hydrocortisone treatment, and it helped immensely. But now that he's on this antibiotic, I don't know whether it's safe to continue giving him benedryl.

While I think it probably wouldn't hurt him (especially since dogs have such a high tolerance to diphenhydramine) to mix the two, I don't want to do it until I know for sure. At this point I'm just smothering him in cream and hoping that the meds work quickly, but it hurts me to see him itching so bad. If ANYBODY knows anything on this subject, please let us all know. I'll ask the doc on Monday and hopefully I'll have an answer then. Again I apologize for not having a solution to this question, but I hope that the info I have given will help to some extent.

This combination is safe but may result in increased sedation. Use with caution.

Gas and Nausea from the Advil. Dipenhydramine will make you sleepy.

You can give dogs the capsules, the same that people take, and the amount depends on your dogs weight. According to the North American Companion Animal the dosage is 2 - 5 mg per kg of body weight. However, it's always best to use the lowest effective dose, rather than start out with the highest allowable dosage.

For example, my pug weighs 25 pounds, which is 11.34 kg. So I give her one 25 mg capsule which works very well, even though she *could* have as much as 55 mg. This can be given every 6 - 8 hours, but I never give it more than every 12 hours, unless my vet recommends it.

Not really! Please avoid 2 antihistamines together, especially when not under medical supervision.

Tylenol is acetaminophen so it would not be advisable to take Tylenol and acetaminophen/diphenhydramine since it would be a double dose of acetaminophen. However, it also depends on the total dose of the acetaminophen. Typically, you should limit a single dose of acetaminophen to 1000mg and a maximum of 4000 mg per 24 hour period.

Yes, just be sure to eat food with taking them.

Benadryl, or diphenhydramine hydrochloride, when taken by mouth, works within 15 to 60 minutes. When injected through a muscle, it takes 20 to 30 minutes to work. When injected through a vein, it works rapidly. The effects of diphenhydramine hydrochloride work for approximately 4 to 8 hours, regardless of the form in which it is taken.

Both medications are prescribed/taken together, but since the Benadryl is OTC, you should check with your doctor or pharmacist. If you are taking the Benadryl because you have gotten a rash from taking the amoxicillin, stop taking the amoxicillin and report the reaction!! You will need to insert a medical alert in your records that you have had an allergic reaction to amoxicillin...which means you will not be able to take any other member of the penicillin family: Augmentin, Cloxapen, Trimox, Bactocil, Veetids, etc..

Yes it does. The chemical is diphenadrine Spelling??? If you are tested for anti-depressants, it will definitedly show up. I just failed one, that's how i found out. I also failed for benzos, and am told it can show up as a false positive, but only on a stick test, I will no more about that once the metabolite count comes back. I did take Valium a month ago, not sure whether that should still be coming up or not.

A few days after the expiration date won't kill you, but it isn't guaranteed by the company after that time and might lose effectiveness any later than a week or so, maybe even go bad. So unless it's an emergency, I'd replace it.

It is not advisable. I personally use Fexofenadine (180mg, 1x a day) for allergies and Ritalin (10mg, 4x a day) for ADD. However, I found myself feverish when taking both at the same time, which lead me to believe there are counteracting components.

This was confirmed by both my general practitioner/allergist and my psychiatrist. The reason is quite simple; both drugs work against eachother. Antihistamines inhibits the action of histamine by either blocking it's attachment to histamine receptors or by catalyzing the transformation of histidine into histamine, that process might make you drowsy and can substantially lower your physical and mental response time. Ritalin (which has the active ingredient methylphenidate) has the exact opposite effect; it will make you (amongst others) more focussed, better motivated and/or increase organisational skills by increasing the levels of dopamine (neurotransmittor) in your brain. The two processes activated by antihistamines and Ritalin will work against eachother, which might cause nausea and can make you feel 'feverish'.

Now in plain language, antihistamines will make you drowsy and timid whereas Ritalin will make you awake and concentrated. Your brain goes nuts over activating the two different processes that are stimulated by the different drug types. As there is no clear solution to taking both, I was advised to not take them at the same time, but rather leave an hour or two between taking the Ritalin and the antihistamine. This is no definite solution, but might lower the complications for taking both.

It's also noteworthy that there is no real harm in taking both. It might make you feel uncomfortable, but it won't cause any damage to your health. Also, newer types of antihistamine like Cetirizine and Loratadine don't have the 'drowsy' effects and therefor might not interfere with the Ritalin in described ways.

The plasma half-life is 8.5±3.2 hours; shorter and longer half-lives have been reported for children and elderly subjects, respectively.

Peak plasma concentrations of diphenhydramine are reached in 2-3 hours.

from: National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/job185drugs/diphenhydramine.htm) accessed Nov. 17, 2008